Staff Electrical Engineer, Power Electronics

What to Expect
Tesla’s Power Electronics group is looking for a skilled and motivated electrical engineer to design and develop Power Electronics converter hardware intended to be used in Tesla powertrains and energy products.
What You’ll Do

• Architect, design, build and industrialize power converter hardware for use in automotive and energy products applications
• Start to finish ownership of hardware – from specification to design, prototype, reliability validation and production
• Capture hardware requirements, build detailed circuit and switching models of power converters, select components, design schematics, PCB layout, build prototypes and validate hardware
• Collaborate with systems architecture, mechanical, PCB layout, manufacturing, reliability, and firmware engineering teams to successfully design, test, validate and manufacture power converters for Tesla products
• Architecture and modeling of new power electronics topologies that have superior performance

What You’ll Bring

• Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• 6 or more years of relevant hands-on hardware experience in design and industrialization of power converter products
• Strong understanding of power converter topologies – both theory and practical design
• Experience with high voltage power semiconductor selection (IGBTs, Si/SiC/GaN MOSFET’s, and Diodes), design of gate drive and analog/digital sensing circuits
• Solid understanding of the theory and application of magnetics (inductors, transformers) and capacitors (film, ceramic and electrolytic) for high voltage and high frequency power conversion
• Good understanding of switching waveforms, semi-conductor loss mechanisms and experience with loss modeling
• Familiar with schematic capture and power converter circuit simulation tools and proficiency with basic EE tools (Oscilloscopes, Network analyzers, Signal Generators etc.) and test automation programming
• Experience in PCB layout for minimal stray inductance/capacitance, component placement strategies for better manufacturability, power/signal plane definition and EMC optimization
• Knowledge in environmental, reliability, and safety requirements for Automotive, Industrial & Residential applications
• Knowledge of basic control theory and experience with embedded programming, awareness of UL and CE electrical safety requirements and EMC requirements relevant to the design of power converters