HIL Validation Engineer, Megapack

What to Expect

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 industrial utility application and microgrid application.

Tesla Energy is looking for an amazing engineer who is passionate about integration of software, hardware, and mechanical design 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.

What You’ll Do

• Developed design tools and executed a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) platform to validate product firmware and software
• Collaborated with design and firmware teams to simulate real-world conditions for firmware validation
• Identified and troubleshot system-level issues during validation cycles
• Developed test infrastructure pipelines, automated test sequences, and analyzed data to ensure functional safety and performance
• Documented test results and drove corrective actions in alignment with engineering standards

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in an engineering-related field, or proof of exceptional skills in related fields, with practical engineering experience, or equivalent experience
• Hands-on experience with electrical and software engineering components and an understanding of how they interact in a complex product
• Experience validating automation on actual hardware platforms
• Fluent in Python and the embedded microprocessor design process, including compilers, debuggers, and Git
• Familiar with Linux, CI/CD, REST APIs, Jenkins, and Docker
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and surface issues in complex HW/SW systems
• Effective communicator with excellent attention to detail