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Tesla Sr. Mechanical Design Engineer Drive Systems United States, Texas, Austin 20475205
06.04.2025
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What You’ll Do What You’ll Bring
- Design complex components and assemblies, draft component and assembly drawings. Release new components and assemblies using PLM, manage design changes using change control processes
- Collaborate with suppliers to address DFM issues upfront and solve quality/production issues during transition to high volume and beyond on a sustaining basis
- Design for a variety of manufacturing methods such as die casting, injection molding, forging, CNC machining, sheet metal, and additive manufacturing
- Work with CAE specialists to optimize and iterate on designs to minimize weight and stress
- Solve challenging packaging and integration issues, both internal and external to the drive unit. Solve assembly design challenges with mechanical tolerance stackup analysis
- At Sr. level, in addition to the above, you'll also manage top level drive unit architecture and physical layout, author “skeleton” file to define all interfacing part features
- Proactively drive progress on drive unit development and work cross-functionally to achieve deliverables and milestones based on project/program timelines
- Contribute to lessons learned and best practices to improve development efficiency for continuous improvement
- At Staff level, in addition to the above, you'll also act as subject matter expert for drive systems topics such as: advanced casting materials or processes, NVH mitigation, seal design and corrosion resistance, component level technology development and performance envelope expansion, mass and cost optimization
- Potentially directly manage a team of engineers, develop skills and performance of direct reports, ensure success for the team in achieving broad program goals
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Mastery with complex 3D modeling to build robust parametric designs
- Evidence of exceptional problem-solving ability
- Expertise with drawing creation utilizing advanced GD&T concepts
- Experience with designing for a variety of manufacturing methods
- Experience with risk mitigation using DFMEA/PFMEA
- Ability to perform tolerance stackup analysis
- Vendor relations experience and knowledge of statistical process control and methods
- Excellent organizational and presentation skills
- Preferred skills: prior EV powertrain design experience, CATIA/3D EXPERIENCE, FEA/CAE experience, NVH analysis, machine design, specification writing, bolted joint design, working knowledge of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics
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