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What to Expect
Tesla is seeking a manufacturing engineer to support selection, specification,
and design of equipment to produce our Power Electronics and Energy Products.
This team provides an opportunity to work with a broad range of
products—including Tesla's Powerwalls, Megapacks, vehicle charging systems,
drive inverters, and supporting hardware. The engineer in this role will work
closely with the product design, factory facilities, sustaining, quality, and
production teams to develop, bring-up, and ramp the equipment needed for high-
volume product assembly.
Project scope begins in early product design stages, where the manufacturing
engineer will provide DFM feedback, develop equipment concepts, and help
define assembly strategy and interface points between the equipment and the
product. The manufacturing engineer will design fixtures and tooling to
support prototype and pilot builds of new or next-generation products, and
directly support these builds as the owner of the manufacturing equipment
while working with Tesla's broader automation development teams or third-party
integrators to develop the high-volume production equipment. The manufacturing
engineer will then be responsible for leading installation, commissioning,
ramping, and handing off equipment to the production team.
What You'll Do
Design manufacturing equipment and fixtures for project phases from early-
stage prototype builds to high-volume production
Develop concepts for high-volume production equipment using a first
principles approach to optimize equipment safety, cost, capacity,
volumetric efficiency, and delivery time
Advise equipment integrators in design and manufacture of equipment for
medium to high-volume production
Lead concept development, selection, and design of automated equipment for
medium to high-volume production
Lead commissioning, deployment, and ramp of production equipment
Define and establish both equipment utility and data interfaces to the
physical and ‘virtual' factory
Provide DFM (design for manufacturability) input to design team for
process and yield improvements
Author and compile equipment documentation for hand-off to production
sustaining team (drawing packages, calibration procedures, validation
data, spare parts lists, etc.)
What You'll Bring
2+ years of manufacturing or equipment sustaining engineering experience
in medium to high-volume manufacturing environments
Experience bringing-up and ramping new production equipment, preferably
for new products or novel processes
Proficiency designing mechanical equipment, fixturing, and tooling in CAD
(SolidWorks or CATIA)
Proficiency in analysis of mechanical tolerances/uncertainty and GD&T
Experience specifying mechanical and electromechanical hardware
Understanding of automation controls systems and interfaces between
software, equipment hardware, and factory databases
BS/MS in mechanical engineering, or equivalent experience
