RF Desense & Multi Radio Coexistence Engineer

About the role

RF Desense & Multi Radio Coexistence Engineer | Tesla (Engineering & Information Technology)

Location: PALO ALTO, California | Req ID: 282474 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

Tesla's Wireless Hardware team is responsible for Cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, UWB, NFC, and GNSS across all vehicle programs and Robot.

Our products present one of the most challenging RF integration environments in mass production. Multiple radios operate concurrently within a metal enclosure, in close proximity to high-speed digital, displays, power conversion, motors, and high-voltage powertrain, with severe constraints on antenna placement and isolation.

This role owns receiver desense and multi-radio coexistence performance at the platform level. You will identify the source of interference and integration failures — such as GNSS degradation coincident with display activity, or phone key disruption during cellular transmission — and drive corrective action into the hardware design. This is a senior ownership position with architectural authority, not a validation execution role.

What You'll Do

• Own platform-level desense performance. Define the noise budget that all other subsystems must meet, and enforce it through design review and validation
• Own coexistence architecture across co-located radios, including spectrum sharing, arbitration, and priority behavior between concurrent radio operations
• Evaluate and arbitrate system-level tradeoffs across cellular throughput, audio performance, phone key latency, and GNSS accuracy, supported by measured data
• Establish RF and antenna placement, isolation, and layout constraints, and represent those requirements in floorplan, mechanical, and PCB design reviews prior to layout freeze
• Design, bring up, and debug cellular RF hardware through validation and into high-volume production
• Drive root cause and permanent corrective action across Hardware, Firmware, Mechanical, Manufacturing, and supplier teams
• Define desense and coexistence methodology, design guidelines, and validation criteria applied across programs, and provide technical mentorship to engineers on RF integration and debug

What You'll Bring

• 10+ years of RF/microwave design experience spanning cellular, Wi-Fi/BT, UWB, and GNSS, including multiple products delivered into high-volume manufacturing
• Demonstrated ownership of desense and multi-radio coexistence performance on shipped products
• Strong receiver and RF system fundamentals, with the ability to analyze interference mechanisms and predict their impact on system performance
• Extensive hands-on laboratory capability, including test automation and data analysis
• Experience designing for environmental constraints, regulatory compliance, and EMC/EMI, ESD, and transient debug
• Proven effectiveness in a matrix organization, including the ability to justify and drive hardware changes that carry cost and schedule impact to other teams
• Automotive or robotics experience with powertrain, charging, or motor-induced interference affecting co-located radios preferred
• Antenna design and placement experience, including electromagnetic simulation correlated to measured results preferred
• Signal integrity and power integrity experience preferred
• Chamber-based and over-the-air test methodology development preferred

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$120,000 - $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.