System Integration Engineer, Solar Products

About the role

System Integration Engineer, Solar Products | Tesla (Energy Engineering)

Location: Palo Alto, California | Req ID: 271127 | Job Type: Full-time

What to Expect

To ensure Tesla's overall mission of accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy, the Tesla Energy team is bringing our world-leading battery technology to the grid. Tesla is leveraging its breakthrough firmware, electronics, test, and manufacturing capability to develop and deploy grid-connected storage at residential, industrial, and utility levels.

Tesla Energy is seeking a System Integration Engineer to perform hardware and firmware integration, validation, and testing of Tesla's solar energy products, including PV inverters and solar panels. You will support system-level hardware and firmware validation, automated regression testing, and firmware release activities across solar products.

What You'll Do

• Perform end-to-end hardware and firmware integration and validation of Tesla's solar energy products, including PV inverters, solar panels, and MPPT and safety functionalities
• Execute system-level firmware validation, regression testing, and firmware release support
• Develop and execute test plans to validate hardware, firmware functionality, and features against system and product specifications
• Develop and maintain automated regression test suites using Python
• Own system bring-up, prototyping, and hardware characterization of solar energy products
• Debug and resolve hardware and firmware integration issues across complex PV systems
• Conduct failure analysis on test and field failures to identify root cause and drive corrective action
• Collaborate cross-functionally with firmware, hardware, and systems engineering teams to ensure functional, performance, safety, and compliance requirements are met
• Drive continuous improvement in design and performance by providing data-driven feedback to design owners

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience in hardware and firmware integration and validation
• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals
• Experience with Python, C, or C++
• Hands-on experience with electrical, mechanical, and software engineering components and an understanding of how they interact in a complex product
• Proficiency with EE lab tools (oscilloscopes, power analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads, CAN tools)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and surface issues within complex hardware/software systems
• Effective communicator with excellent attention to detail
• Preferred: Experience with solar PV systems, including PV inverters, rapid shutdown devices, solar panels, and DC optimizers

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.