Mechanical Design Engineer, Enclosures, Energy Products

Tesla Energy is looking for a highly skilled and motivated engineer to perform and drive mechanical and enclosure design activities for its utility scale energy storage and supercharging products. The role entails strong fundamentals, a passion to push the boundaries of technology and the tenacity to make your designs successful. Tesla operates under compressed timelines, so being self-motivated, disciplined, and resilient is critical. We aim to recruit the most talented engineers to accelerate the worlds transition to sustainable energy.

• Modeling and design of mechanical components and assemblies including sheet metal,structural metals, plastics, environmental sealing materials, fasteners, and other components
• Mechanical design analysis including structural finite element analysis, design for assembly, design for manufacturing, and design for test
• Work with cross-functional teams to refine specifications and achieve product performance, aesthetic, schedule, cost, reliability, and quality targets
• Collaborate with thermal, systems, electrical, sourcing, manufacturing, and reliability teams to take designs from prototype through mass production
• Develop engineering test plans for designs
• Assist in engineering prototype builds and component fabrication
• Root cause and solve test failures and production problems
• Create high quality drawing packages and manufacturing instructions for parts and assemblies
• Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Experience designing for high-volume assembly and manufacturing
• Experience designing products for outdoor environments, including IP/NEMA environmental seals
• Strong engineering fundamentals in mechanics, heat transfer, and fluids
• Experience with various manufacturing processes such as metal stamping, extruding, welding/brazing, plating, heat treating, plastic injection molding, thermoforming, and bonding
• Experience in designing for high volume assembly, both manual and automated
• Proficiency in CAD modeling. CATIA V5/V6 experience, a plus
• Experience designing packaging solutions for battery or power electronics systems
• Structural analysis expertise, static and frequency response spectrum FEA experience
• Knowledge of electrical principles and their application in renewable energy systems