Tesla Internship Abuse Testing Engineering Fall 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

60294103

Test Systems Engineering Internship:

• All Tesla products share a critical component- cells! In the Abuse Test and Engineering group, it is our job to find the electrical, mechanical, and thermal limitations of these cells to ensure products deliver top end performance to our customers and do so in a safe manner. We move fast and do whatever it takes to inform designs early in their development. This makes for an environment that is fast paced, exciting, and offers lots of opportunity to shine while solving tough problems in fun ways. We are looking for driven individuals to support the battery cell abuse team across all Tesla programs. In this role, you would be a part of a dedicated team responsible for exciting tests spanning electrical, thermal, and mechanical abuse.

High Voltage Abuse Test Internship:

• In the Abuse Test and Engineering group, it is our job to find the electrical, mechanical, and thermal limitations of the batteries and power electronics to ensure products deliver top end performance to our customers and do so in a safe manner. We move fast and do whatever it takes to inform design improvements. This makes for an environment that is fast paced, exciting, and offers lots of opportunity to shine while solving tough problems in fun ways. At Tesla the design improvement and refinement will never stop, and thus our test methods need to match to ensure that new failure modes are understood. You will work directly with the Electrical Abuse Test Group responsible for stress testing the electrical components that protect batteries such as in-house designed fuses and high voltage management systems to ensure new designs meet the Tesla standard.

Battery Propagation Resistance Test Engineering Internship:

• Cells are the common denominator for every Tesla product. In the Abuse Testing & Engineering group, we push battery systems to their limits and beyond using specialized equipment to apply electrical, mechanical, and thermal stresses. Our goal is to provide rapid feedback to inform designs early in development, by understanding how robust systems perform under abusive conditions. We accommodate external regulations but have a strong focus on internal requirements and testing for failure. Every Tesla battery product comes through our lab, both vehicles and energy storage. Our environment is fast-paced and incredibly exciting.

Abuse Test & Engineering R&D Internship:

• The Abuse Test and Engineering R&D group is primarily responsible for the destructive testing of batteries from the pack, module and cell level. We are expanding rapidly and are involved with all Tesla battery programs.

Cell Materials Engineering, Abuse Test Internship:

• Engineers within the Abuse Testing and Engineering team routinely tackle extremely difficult engineering challenges and continuously push boundaries into identifying failure modes for high voltage systems (e.g., electric vehicles and energy storage systems). Individuals will work closely with mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, thermal engineers, and firmware engineers to root cause technical issues and conduct recreation testing of failure modes. The role requires materials characterization experience in addition to utilizing skills across many disciplines (mechanical, thermal, electrical).