Tesla Lead/Manager Power Electronic/Electrical Staff Design Engineer Drive/Traction 

Germany, Brandenburg 

891835310

• Be the point of contact for any internal/external technical/organizational topics within the team.​

• Identify and solve restrictions in daily work, define long term development plans, and everything in between, while motivating the team through challenges.​

• Start to finish ownership of traction inverter hardware (PCBA and/or power stage) from specification to design, simulation, prototype, validation, and support high-volume manufacturing and field studies. ​

• Collaborate with mechanical, manufacturing, test, and control/firmware engineering teams to successfully design, validate, and manufacture traction inverters.

• M.Sc./Ph.D. in Electrical/Electronic Engineering and evidence of exceptional ability. ​

• 4 or more years of relevant hands-on hardware experience with designing and testing wide band-gap high voltage power converters and power stages, while managing a team of engineers.​

• Relevant hands-on experience with designing and testing power PCBA (integrated circuits, gate drivers, sensors/signal conditioning, power supplies) and proficiency with laboratory equipment.​

• Strong fundamentals of power semiconductors (switching waveforms, loss mechanisms) and passive electronic components (capacitor, inductors, and transformers) – modelling and selection.​

Additional Preferred Skills​

• Understanding of traction inverters design trade-offs in automotive and with respect to electric motors.​

• Experience with power converter design for high-volume automotive applications.​

• Working knowledge of Matlab and/or Python.​

• Knowledge in environmental, reliability, and safety requirements for automotive applications.