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What to Expect
Come join us as we build the power system of the future with clean and
sustainable energy! Come help the Tesla team design, model, and integrate our
solar-battery-charging ecosystem to enable this green energy transformation
Tesla is looking for power systems engineers to build on our in-house modeling
and hardware-in-loop (HIL) testing capability for our energy storage, solar,
and electric charging systems at mass scales. You will interface with
utilities, independent power providers, and system operators in technical
power systems discussions, and influence our systems design to facilitate
scaling on the grid. You will be responsible for developing detailed models of
our technology and controls strategies operating on the grid and forming
microgrids of different sizes. The role is diverse, fast-paced, and spans
multiple levels of electrical, controls, firmware design, and grid-operations
What You'll Do
Work with customers and business development team to create models to
represent the Tesla Energy system in power flow, dynamic modeling
software, and real time simulations tools.
Continue to increase our in-house capability to model Tesla's product in
HIL testing environment to test the product power system's dynamics
behavior when connected to the large and small grids.
Perform modelling and HIL testing to ensure that the product behavior
meets the product's design specification and project's requirement. As
needed, improve models or work with the product team to influence system
architecture/controls or work with the customer to set clear expectations
of the intended behavior.
Improve and build HIL test setups and automate them to perform studies in
a time efficient way with clear indexing/documentation of a large test
data set.
Work with both the product design team and the firmware/software teams to
keep models current with the technology roadmap.
What You'll Bring
Expert knowledge of at least two power system modelling and HIL tools:
PSCAD/EMTP-RV, RTDS, Typhoon, OPAL-RT
Strong knowledge of at least one programming language: Fortran, Python, C,
C++, or Go
Direct experience modelling large and small grids with deep understanding
of grid level performance requirements
Strong working knowledge of control theory, ability to implement PID
control
Setting up full HIL testing systems including physical and software setups
of meters, controllers, network switches, power supplies, oscilloscopes,
and interface cards
Advanced degree with focus in power systems or control preferred
Communicate findings in a concise & clear manner and ability to work cross
functionally with customers, engineering, business development, and
deployment personnel.
