About This Role
This Manufacturing Engineer role at Tesla contributes to the development and launch of manufacturing equipment for advanced battery products. You will guide large-scale manufacturing systems for new battery architectures from concept through launch, optimization, and handover to operations. This is an opportunity to work on core challenges in electric vehicles through battery architecture and manufacturing technology innovation.
Responsibilities
- Ideate concepts for equipment and manufacturing system(s)
- Develop specifications and manage RFQ process
- Lead and manage vendors and coordinate project scope cross-functionally with production, design and quality
- Validate and optimize processes from early prototype builds through full volume production
- Transition products from low-volume prototypes to large-scale production
- Function as lead manufacturing engineer or project manager on new automated manufacturing equipment
- Capability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally
Requirements
- 3+ years of engineering or equivalent relevant experience
- Experience developing and implementing manufacturing processes and equipment in high-volume production
- Experience deploying, qualifying and validating new processes in a highly automated production environment
- Proficiency in geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T) and experimental design
- Proficiency in the development and launch of large, highly automated manufacturing lines
- Familiarity with industrial engineering concepts such as line balancing and OEE
- Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Physics, Materials, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- Medical plans with $0 payroll deduction options
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both with $0 paycheck contribution options
- 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
