Staff Battery Electrode Engineer

What to Expect

Tesla’s Supplier Industrialization team is responsible for critical raw materials, component production and qualification activities at suppliers. This role will be responsible for selecting, qualifying, scaling battery cell materials (focuses on cell electrode) manufacturing processes and quality system at Tesla supplier locations. In this role, you will work closely with many organizations both internal and external to Tesla, taking new battery designs from initial concept through into full production.

The battery cell is a critical component in Tesla vehicles and storage systems. This role will have the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to our products. The work environment is demanding, fast-paced and incredibly exciting. The ideal candidate should be ready to push their limits, as they join in highly motivated and capable team to make unbelievable things into reality.

What You’ll Do

• Review/setup, qualify& scale process flow for battery cell electrode manufacturing

• Monitor production output at existing facilities and support expansion programs with existing suppliers

• Setup In-process, OQC and corresponding IQC material quality controls; qualified required metrology for the same

• Qualify capacity expansion for existing cell electrode products

• Drive electrode related FA at supplier location

• Project manage activities at supplier locations and ensure all required milestones are meeting Tesla product qualification on time

• Act as a technical contact point for battery cell electrode manufacturing processes and co-ordinate activities within internal and external teams

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Chemical, Material, Mechanical or equivalent engineering discipline, with 10+ years of experience in battery cell electrode manufacturing process & quality control, or equivalent experience

• Experience in characterizing materials using techniques like TGA, DSC, Viscometer, moisture analysis, SEM, EDS, etc.

• Experience in developing OQC/IQC quality controls, metrology qualification for cell electrodes

• Must be well versed in statistical data analysis & process capability analysis

• Solid knowledge of battery cell manufacturing and physical mechanism, cell performance requirements and corresponding relationship to electrode characteristics

• Good communication and presentation skills

• Experience in high volume manufacturing is desired

• Ability to travel – 35%