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Sr. Thermal System Validation Engineer, Energy Products

Tesla Motors
Palo Alto, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/9/2025

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 looking for an engineer who is passionate about validation of hardware and firmware of thermal system to drive the world's transition to a sustainable future. We emphasize collaboration in our work, and always encourage each other to have fun while we change the world together.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive hardware validation efforts for thermal systems and components such as compressors, pumps, fans, heat exchangers, etc.
  • Designing and implementing test infrastructure as buck setup or HIL / SIL platform to break down system level validation into sub-system level validation
  • Lead the test plan execution for hardware performance validation - including test planning, setup design, development, execution, and continuous feedback for new hardware revisions
  • Identify, escalate, and resolve issues with hardware and firmware during system bring up, performance and fault injection testing
  • Writing and maintaining test software to automate test execution, data collection, and data analysis, to build up a pipeline for full regression tests to ensure test coverage of requirements
  • Hands-on testing, debugging and troubleshooting on product hardware and software, capable to identify, escalate, and resolve issues with hardware and firmware during testing

Requirements

  • Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • Good fundamentals in heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics
  • Fluency in using MATLAB or Python to do thermal data analysis
  • Experience using standard lab and test equipment such as power supplies, DMMs, DAQs, pressure transducers, flowmeters, thermocouples, etc.
  • Experience working with liquid cooled thermal management systems
  • Effective communicator and excellent attention to detail
  • Preferred : Experience working with liquid cooled thermal management systems for batteries or power converters
  • Preferred : Experience working with vapor compression cycles and or heat pump systems
  • Preferred : Exceptional analytical problem-solving skills, able to identify and surface issues within complex HW / SW systems

    • Compensation and Benefits

    Benefits

    Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire :

  • Aetna PPO and HSA plans >

    • 2 medical 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 Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna 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
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary 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

    • Expected Compensation

    133,440 - $292,800 / annual salary cash and stock awards benefits

    Pay 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.

    Salary : $133,440 - $292,800

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