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Tesla Power Electronics Engineer Drive Inverter 
United States, California, Palo Alto 
931821179

10.04.2025

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What to Expect
Join the electric revolution as a Power Electronics Engineer at Tesla. You'll design the heart of our electric vehicles: the drive inverter, a critical component that impacts acceleration, efficiency, cost, and reliability. Collaborating with a talented team, you'll develop cutting-edge technology that pushes the boundaries of electric vehicle innovation. Your work will have a direct impact on the future of sustainable energy, and we're looking for a motivated and skilled engineer to lead the way.
What You’ll Do

  • Develop, characterize, and validate high voltage power semiconductors for traction inverter applications

  • Measure and analyze data including switching waveforms, losses and thermal performance

  • Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, PCBA, reliability, manufacturing and firmware engineering teams to optimize inverter switching, loss, reliability and thermal behavior

  • Collaborate with suppliers to develop next generation inverters

  • Design, implement, and validate solutions for EMC, reliability, and manufacturing

  • Start to finish ownership of hardware – from specification to design, prototype, reliability testing and high-volume manufacturing

  • Solve challenges at scale to achieve industry leading reliability and efficiency in the world’s highest production volume EV drive inverters

What You’ll Bring

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent experience and evidence of exceptional ability

  • Experience with high-voltage power semiconductors, including wide bandgap devices (IGBTs, SiC-MOSFETs, etc.), in high-power (>50 kW) and high-voltage (>300 V) applications

  • Experience with double-pulse testing and thermal characterization, as well as familiarity with gate drive and protection circuit design for high-voltage power semiconductors

  • Experience with semiconductor device reliability testing and failure analysis techniques

  • Experience with scripting for data processing and test automation, such as MATLAB, Python, or LabVIEW

  • Experience with FEA simulation and measurement of device and busbar electrical parasitics

  • Knowledge of basic control theory, and experience with embedded firmware development, electric machines, field-oriented control, thermal design, and/or mechanical design

  • Knowledge of automotive environmental, reliability, and safety requirements

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