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Tesla Mechanical Design Engineer Electronic Control Unit 
United States, California, Palo Alto 
315440227

23.04.2025
What You’ll Do
  • Design & Development: Use CAD software to design parts, assemblies, and mechanisms, ensuring that they are optimized for manufacturability and assembly
  • Prototyping & Testing: Build and test prototypes to validate designs, conduct simulations, and analyze results to continuously refine and improve your work
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to present and discuss design concepts, ensuring alignment and addressing any potential challenges
  • Problem Solving: Apply creative problem-solving skills during the design and development phases, including conducting root cause analysis and addressing any issues that arise
  • Documentation: Prepare accurate and detailed design documentation, including drawings, specifications, and bills of materials (BOMs), to support manufacturing and assembly processes
  • Project Management: Manage multiple design projects simultaneously, coordinating with other teams to ensure deadlines are met and projects remain on track
  • Continuous Improvement: Stay informed about the latest industry trends, materials, and technologies, and incorporate best practices into your design work
What You’ll Bring
  • Bachelor or Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering and 1-3 years of industry equivalent experience
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) including emails, preparing slide presentations, and presenting technical concepts to multi-disciplinary teams
  • Works well in collaborative team atmospheres
  • Proficiency in 3D CAD (CATIA preferred)
  • Wide knowledge of basic engineering materials and manufacturing processes
  • Experience in prototyping quick-turn, high fidelity mechanisms and concepts to enable architecture down-selects and data collection
  • Working knowledge of FEA principles and how to leverage input for system convergence
  • GD&T knowledge, tolerance analyses (high-volume), experience releasing 2D drawings and FAI/CPK dimensional reports
  • Creative problem solving, with experience in failure analysis, root cause investigation, and DOE creation