Tesla Reliability Engineer Interiors & Seats Semi 

United States, California, Fremont 

593654963

This role is highly engaging, and you will also be exposed to our complete vehicle portfolio. You will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to understand emerging designs and architectures. You will be responsible for identifying risks associated with these architectures. You will identify appropriate stresses that our products must pass and create test plans, which will be used to assess the reliability of our products. You will provide reliability analyses and suggestions to improve the reliability of our products.

The level of this position will be determined at the time of the interview.

• Apply solid knowledge of reliability methods, material properties, and failure/degradation mechanisms to design accelerated test plans for design validation and demonstration of reliability growth

• Analyze field usage and environmental conditions to optimize requirement setting and test methods

• Facilitate and lead design FMEA sessions to assess product risks, determine validation test plans and drive reliable design choices

• Work with manufacturing quality, service engineering, supplier quality and design teams to identify root causes and drive resolution for failures originating in testing and in the field

• Generate process validation test plans to implement at suppliers, and drive root cause corrective action with suppliers to resolve production process issues

• Provide reliability design guidelines and apply reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement

• Bachelor’s Degree in Materials Science or equivalent experience

• 2+ years of experience working in a reliability engineering role or on mechanical systems related to automotive applications

• Solid knowledge of material properties and failure/degradation mechanisms for polymers, fabrics, foams

• Knowledge of plastic part design and manufacturing processes

• Understanding of Highly Accelerated testing methods and governing equations for different types of acceleration models

• Experience with developing reliability guidelines and inventing novel ways of reliability testing

• Working knowledge of reliability statistics including Weibull analysis, and experience with statistical software such as JMP, Minitab, etc.

• Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, CSAM, X-ray, cross-sectioning and EDX

• Self-driven and focused individual with a proven ability to manage parallel tasks effectively, with a desire to work in a fast-paced environment

• Proven ability to remain engaged, proactive, and positive in tough circumstances