Expoint - all jobs in one place

Finding the best job has never been easier

Limitless High-tech career opportunities - Expoint

Tesla Lead Reliability Validation Engineer Energy Charging Products 
United States, California, Palo Alto 
462204726

23.04.2025
What You’ll Do
  • Communicate and streamline reliability program requirements for environmental stress screening and ongoing reliability testing globally
  • Determine component/system level test solutions that optimize product reliability and durability, FMEA-based risk mitigations, test team resources, and program schedules

  • Work closely with Reliability, Design, and Manufacturing teams to validate manufacturing reliability results and action plans suggesting design and/or process improvements to address reliability and durability issues based on understanding of failure root causes

  • Communicate reliability validation plans for components and subsystems providing guidance on sample size requirements and durations for reliability testing

  • Drive reliability assessments in program reviews and clearly communicate risk at products lifecycle

  • Influence supplier selection for higher reliability and provide clear guidance on reliability requirements and demonstration to suppliers

  • Provide reliability design guidelines and apply reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement. Answer complex questions on global product manufacturing reliability performance across Energy & Charging products

What You’ll Bring
  • Strong communication skills and experience leading cross functional teams

  • Solid Mechanical or Electrical Engineering fundamentals

  • 3-10 years of hands-on experience in hardware design, design validation, hardware testing, mechanical system reliability testing, and durability testing

  • Understanding of accelerated testing methods, governing equations, and physics of failure for different failure mechanisms

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

  • Knowledge of programming in scripting languages for test automation and data analysis/post-processing

  • Knowledge of manufacturing engineering fundamentals

  • Knowledge of reliability warranty analysis and reliability prediction methods

  • Experience working with complex electronic and mechanical systems

  • Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field and five or more years of industry experience in a reliability engineering role