Electronic Design Engineer

What to Expect

About the role

Tesla's AI Compute electrical design team builds the system boards that power autonomous driving, humanoid robotics, and the data centers that train and serve our models. You will own complex high-speed motherboards built around Tesla's custom neural-engine silicon and leading x86/Arm processors, balancing inferencing performance, efficiency, cost, and reliability — from a single vehicle ECU up to scale-up and scale-out clusters in the AI inference data center.

What You’ll Do

Responsibilities:

• Own hardware end-to-end: system architecture, electrical specification, SPICE simulation, schematics, prototype build, bring-up, and validation
• Translate open-ended electrical discussions into concrete circuit schematics
• Collaborate cross-functionally with silicon design, post-silicon, PCB layout, firmware, mechanical, signal and power integrity, thermal, reliability, EMC, and program management
• Author bring-up and validation plans, then verify every feature and interface across PVT corners
• Document electrical design requirements, calculations, and power budgets to a level that supports audit and reuse
• Design for manufacturability, testability, and EMC compliance

What You’ll Bring Required qualifications

• Degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering, or equivalent industry experience
• Demonstrated end-to-end PCB assembly design ownership, including hands-on bring-up, electrical validation, failure analysis, and system test
• Strong high-speed board design (>10 Gbps) with PCIe, MIPI, Ethernet, Display Port, USB, or HDMI
• Complex motherboard experience with high-performance x86/Arm processors and/or custom silicon
• Working knowledge of AI SoC specifications — compute, memory bandwidth, network ingress/egress, peak power, storage — and benchtop bring-up
• Hardware and software co-design experience optimizing inference for large language models
• High-power, high-efficiency voltage regulator design
• Solid analog and power fundamentals (MOSFETs, op-amps, switching regulators, gate drivers)
• Experience shipping high-volume products from concept to mass production
• Comfortable iterating with mechanical, thermal, and EMC partners under tight, evolving constraints
• Track record of driving suppliers to meet reliability, performance, and scalability targets across the design-to-production lifecycle
• Proficient with bench tools — oscilloscopes, BERT, network analyzers, signal generators

Preferred

• Board layout experience in Cadence Allegro or Altium tools
• AI training and inference processor internals (CPU / NPU / memory controller)
• Inter-chip communication for scale-up AI clusters: 112G / 224G Ser Des, UALink, scale-up Ethernet
• Cutting-edge memory: GDDR6/7, HBM, DDR5, LPDDR4/5/6