What To Expect
As a Staff Reliability Engineer focusing on Tesla Energy Systems, you will play a key role in designing reliability into Tesla’s industrial and residential products. This role follows the reliability lifecycle of the product from concept to design, development testing/analysis, manufacturing, and field operation to design-in, confirm, and grow exceptional reliability at every stage. You will investigate failures through physics of failure analysis and physical testing to accurately predict the charging system’s robustness and optimize product reliability while accelerating Tesla’s next gen products’ time to market.  

What You'll Do

Set and communicate reliability requirements and targets for site, product, subsystem, and components

Create Fault Trees and reliability block diagrams to assess system reliability and warranty analysis. Facilitate Design FMEA sessions to drive reliable design choices and improve validation test programs

Analyze usage and environmental conditions from the field to improve requirement setting and testing methods

Apply statistical analysis to test (accelerated life) and field (life) data to inform reliability physics modeling/analyses and associated corrective actions

Work closely with Design and Reliability Data Engineers to create/interpret/validate numeric models of fielded and in-test products

Specify reliability validation plans for components and subsystems using physics of failure. Provide guidance on sample size requirements and durations for reliability testing using lifetime models and reliability statistics

Drive reliability assessments in product design reviews and clearly communicate risk at each phase of product development and for released products

Facilitate failure analysis to understand root cause and drive resolution of failures occurring during product development. Research failure mechanisms to build more robust validation plans and influence design choices

Influence supplier selection for higher reliability and provide clear guidance on reliability requirements and demonstration to suppliers

Provide reliability design guidelines and apply reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement. Answer complex questions on fleet usage and behavior to enable proactive health monitoring, grow reliability, and minimize field failures

What You'll Bring

Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related field and one or more years of industry experience in a reliability engineering role or equivalent experience

Understanding of accelerated testing methods, governing equations, and physics of failure for different failure mechanisms 

Understanding of applied statistics and reliability statistics (Weibull distribution, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Bayesian methods, Monte Carlo analysis, etc.) 

Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, CSAM, X-ray, cross-sectioning and EDX

Knowledge of the ReliaSoft Synthesis Platform, including Weibull++, BlockSim, ALTA, RGA, and xFMEA 

Knowledge of methods to design-in reliability, including electronic computer-aided design and mechanical computer-aided engineering (CAE) data into 3D finite element models (e.g. using Sherlock) 

Working knowledge of programming languages, preferably Python 

Knowledge of reliability growth techniques, such as Crow-AMSAA and Crow Extended is a plus 

Knowledge of reliability warranty analysis and reliability prediction methods

Experience working with complex electronic and mechanical systems

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

Medical plans > 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 Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible 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 (90 day waiting period)

Employee Assistance Program

Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly 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

$109,600 - $234,000/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.

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