Sr. Software Validation Engineer, Supercharger

About the role

Sr. Software Validation Engineer, Supercharger | Tesla (Energy Engineering)

Location: Palo Alto, California | Req ID: 281279 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

The Supercharger Team is responsible for Tesla’s public fast charging products. As a Senior engineer on this team, you will be responsible for testing our EV charger features to ensure the quality and safety of the charging experience for both Tesla owners and third party EVs.

You will architect, design, and implement firmware validation procedures, equipment, tooling, and automation to efficiently test charging components and subsystems. You will work closely with development and integration teams to explore and validate the performance capabilities of our hardware and firmware to ensure code quality is high.

Your effort to create and equip automated validation infrastructures and coverage reporting will have a direct impact on the reliability, robustness, and value of our products. Your impact will help the world’s acceleration to sustainable energy.

What You'll Do

• Design advanced automated test suites for the Hardware/Processor/Software-in-the-loop (HIL/PIL/SIL)
• Bring up new validation platforms for our latest products
• Emulate component I/O to test firmware prior to PCBA arrival
• Setup and maintain CI/CD pipelines for test execution, integrating automated scripts with test management tools
• Understand and deconstruct complicated software systems and devise strategies to test these systems
• Create reporting mechanisms for automated testing for firmware and hardware
• Work alongside the development and integration teams to create automated regression tests
• Drive functional safety certification-grade testing coverage
• Integrate SI tools to improve testing workflows

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in Python, C, C++
• 5+ years of relevant experience in embedded design and validation
• Expertise testing devices and debugging hardware (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, DMM)
• Experience in electronic and system schematic design and capture (Altium Designer) preferred
• Knowledge of source control (Git) and continuous integration (Jenkins) preferred
• Knowledge of EVSE, EVs preferred
• Experience with FPGAs and HDLs (Verilog) preferred
• Desired to have experience mentoring engineers, providing technical direction, and driving strategic planning for the team members

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 - $252,000/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.