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Tesla Controls Engineer Automation United States, Illinois, Elgin 508668106
23.04.2025
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What You’ll Do What You’ll Bring
- Prototyping using overnight machined parts from our fabrication shop
- Participate in machine risk assessments and ensure safety standards are met
- Review electrical schematics and assist with hardware definition / architecture
- Create application design documentation/flow charts and conduct software design reviews
- Program all software for unique projects with a variety of needs (PLC, HMI/SCADA, Servo, Robotics, Machine Vision, etc.)
- Test and verify electrical wiring (safety circuits, IO, communications, etc.)
- Debug and test all software to meet project requirements. Test run equipment to validate software quality and performance
- Work with assembly personnel and mechanical design engineer to ensure all mechanical setups and alignments are properly completed
- Work to ensure the project requirements are fulfilled and the equipment performance is excellent before it is shipped to the factory
- This full-time role requires travel to other Tesla facilities (up to 25-30%)
- 1 or more years of experience in custom automation
- PLC controls (Siemens primary, Rockwell Automation secondary)
- HMI/SCADA (WinCC primary, Ignition secondary)
- Experience with controls hardware including sensors, remote IO, servos, VFDs, machine vision, barcode readers, etc.
- Industrial networking protocols (e.g., Profinet, Ethernet TCP/IP, Ethernet I/P, EtherCAT, etc.)
- Robots: 6-axis (FANUC primary, Kuka secondary)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Controls and Computer Control Systems, Mechatronic Engineering, Automation Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
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