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What to Expect
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About the team Tesla is looking for a skilled and motivated individual to perform electrical engineering activities for our Energy Products design team. This individual will collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers to deliver innovative, best in class products that support Tesla's mission to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy.
What You'll Do
Responsibilities
• Design and development of digital and analog electronics for control of high-power electronic systems
• Working with senior engineers, create schematics, and PCB layouts
• Electrical design analysis including circuit simulation, EMC, thermals, design for manufacturing, and design for test
• Develop and execute test plans to validate circuit performance
• Use basic lab equipment including oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, and tools to construct and modify circuits during design debug
• Collaborate with other electrical, systems, mechanical, firmware, and test engineers to meet design and program needs
What You'll Bring
Preferred Skills
• Experience using Altium, LTspice, Matlab, Python
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and testing PCBAs
• Experience working with switching power supplies and LDOs, analog sense circuits, MCU and digital circuits, communications (CAN, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, RS485), and high voltage circuits
• Prior experience with taking leading roles in school or university extracurricular design projects / competitions is a plus
• Ability to relocate to Palo Alto, CA