Tesla Internship Sales Engineer Energy Summer 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

230845890

The intern is expected to participate and contribute to all stages of the project lifecycle from product pitch, RFP technical reviews through contract negotiations. This can include:

• Understanding the value of Tesla's energy storage products and competitive advantages, shadow and eventually lead (with guidance from senior members of the team) the review of RFP documents and coordinate with product/ engineering / sales teams to put together a list of technical exceptions to RFP documents from Tesla's standard offerings.
• Supporting and working with customers (with guidance from senior members of the team) on finding an optimal solution that is both technically and financially feasible for a project, considering all project-specific restrictions (eg: Site space, permitting, project use cases)
• Having a good grasp of contracting concepts and supporting contract population with project specific-guaranteed values, and quality checks with sales / sales operations teams.
• Having a solid understanding of internal tools and processes, and support building of new tools to support sales engineering analysis and improve the efficiency of the sales engineering processes.

• BS or MS, in areas of Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, Environmental or Software Engineering or equivalent functional experience
• Demonstrated experience developing software or analytical tools to solve problems
• Ability to develop software in Python
• Knowledge of relational databases (SQL preferred)
• Proficiency in software engineering tools (Git, Atlassian Suite)
• Ability to document software requirements and specifications
• Superior knowledge of MS Office tools (Excel, Work, & PowerPoint)
• Knowledge of battery systems, power conversion, and grid systems
• Ability to keep track of quickly changing market conditions regarding storage funding, product development, and competitive landscape.
• Ability to prioritize and execute many tasks in parallel
• Familiarity with financial analyses
• Professional fluency in English and the language(s) of the assigned region, additional languages a plus