Sr. System Validation Engineer, Residential Energy

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 residential, industrial, and utility levels.

Tesla Energy is seeking a highly skilled System Validation Engineer to lead firmware / software validation efforts for our residential energy products. You will be responsible for developing test plans, building advanced test infrastructure, and ensuring our products are fully validated for all markets in a timely manner.

We emphasize collaboration in our work and always encourage each other to have fun while we change the world together.

What You’ll Do

• Lead system-level firmware validation for residential energy storage systems, solar PV, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology across multiple markets
• Design, build, and maintain advanced test setups and infrastructure to enable system-level firmware validation
• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans to validate grid support functions, performance, safety, and interoperability requirements
• Perform firmware integration testing of grid support functions and identify firmware defects early in the development cycle
• Develop and maintain automated test suites to enable continuous regression testing

What You’ll Bring

• Strong electrical engineering fundamentals with understanding of power electronics and control systems
• 5+ years of experience in grid-connected power electronics testing, hardware/firmware integration, or power systems validation
• Proficiency with specialized test equipment: power analyzers, grid simulators, oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, CAN tools
• Preferred: Programming familiarity in Python for test automation