Electronic Design Engineer, Energy Products

About the role

Electronic Design Engineer, Energy Products | Tesla (Energy Engineering)

Location: Palo Alto, California | Req ID: 252454 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

The Energy EE team designs the eyes, ears, and brains of Tesla’s Vehicle & Optimus charging and residential/industrial energy storage products including Powerwall and Megapack. This skilled and motivated individual will keep pushing this evolving industry forward by designing central processing boards, wireless/wired communication systems, circuits to ensure user and equipment safety, energy metering, thermal controls, power supplies and distribution, system level components including breakers, contactors, and pyrofuses, and much more.

What You'll Do

• Design and develop digital and analog electronic PCBAs, and system level design for energy products
• Collaborative work with mechanical, firmware, EMC, RF, design validation, thermal design, compliance, reliability, and manufacturing test engineers
• Start to finish ownership of circuit board electronics – from specification through design, prototype, validation, and manufacturing

What You'll Bring

• BS in Electrical Engineering, or the equivalent experience
• Experience in selection and use of DSPs, microcontrollers, or programmable logic devices
• Experience designing digital circuits including high-speed busses (CAN, Ethernet, DDR, USB, SPI etc.)
• Experience in selection and use of analog sensors and signal conditioning circuits
• Experience designing board level power supplies (buck, boost, flyback, etc.)
• Experience in PCB layout, plane definition, thermal and EMC optimization, signal integrity
• Experience with medium to high volume DFT and DFM
• Previous work in the solar, energy storage, electric vehicle, or electric vehicle charging industry is a plus
• High-speed digital design expertise, communications networks and fiber optics is a plus
• Experience in development of digital and analog interfaces for test systems, especially (Labview, Matlab, Python) is a plus

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program
• Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)

Expected Compensation$100,000 - $288,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefitsPay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.