What are the responsibilities and job description for the Process Optimization, Lithium Refinery position at Tesla?
As Tesla continues to vertically integrate our operations, Tesla's Refinery Infrastructure group is looking for a highly motivated Process and Modeling Engineer to work on a critical challenge facing the world's energy transition - expanding production of cathode materials and cathode raw material refining systems. As a Process and Modeling Engineer, you will work closely with the process development and design teams to deploy first-of-a-kind chemical production processes and equipment, designing new processing facilities to produce high purity battery materials, supporting projects from concept through design, install, integration, ramp, and handover to the operations team.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the process design and operations teams to develop dynamic simulations of process equipment and production facilities
- Work closely with process engineers and use simulation results to inform equipment design
- Support operations teams as needed to achieve productivity and material quality targets on pilot and commercial scale systems
- Develop simulations to test control logic using a digital twin concept
- Develop and rollout the Graphic model with operators and training team
- Benchmark the models against real-time plant data
- Develop quality control and product tracking applications to support production
Requirements
