Test Engineer, Low Voltage Hardware

The Low Voltage Hardware team is responsible for designing and testing the electrical "nervous system" of Tesla vehicles. Our goal is to design circuit boards to distribute power from the battery to each electrical device as efficiently as possible. We control hundreds of electrical devices including motors, sensors, switches, and LEDs to power user-facing systems such as seats, doors, HVAC, powertrain, safety, chassis, exteriors, lighting, and more.

• Architect, design, test, and maintain hardware & firmware for custom automated circuit board validation system

• Start-to-finish hardware ownership: Specification, architecture, design, simulation, schematic, layout supervision, prototype, validation, and manufacturing of circuit boards

• Start-to-finish firmware ownership: Specification, architecture, design, validation, and over-the-air updates

• Ensure testers are ready for worldwide deployment & meet the needs of all internal customers

• Collaborate with program management, supply chain, internal customers, and technicians

• Document design requirements, calculations, power budgets, validation results, build instructions, etc

• Manage new features, track bugs, and releases

• Lead junior engineers, interns, and technicians

• Rapidly iterate as design requirements mature over time

• Experience shipping high-volume circuit boards

• Knowledge of automotive design requirements & autonomous vehicle systems (fail-safe redundancy)

• Experience with object-oriented programming and inheritance

• Ability to write, test, and debug structured Python code

• Experience in multi-threaded Python programming

• PC administration (spec hardware/software, manage/deploy fleet of PCs)

• Lab equipment automation (power supplies, thermal chambers, oscilloscopes, etc)