What to Expect

We are looking for a Reliability Engineer for Low Voltage Electronics, Semi with a strong background in low voltage electronics to join our reliability team. In this role, you will play a key role in designing reliability into our ground-breaking electronics systems. As a successful candidate, you will follow the reliability lifecycle of these products from concept to design, development, manufacturing, and field operation to design-in, confirm and grow exceptional reliability at every stage.   

This role is highly engaging, and you will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to understand emerging designs and architectures for our Tesla Semi. You will be responsible for identifying risks associated with electronic components and the systems they interact with. You will identify appropriate stresses that our products must pass and create test plans, which will be used to assess the reliability of our products. You will provide reliability analyses and use your engineering knowledge to help improve the reliability of our products.  

You must have a genuine passion for engineering products that will fundamentally change the world, and you must be self-motivated with the desire to push boundaries. If you have a strong technical first-principles understanding, excellent problem-solving skills, and a genuine fascination for engineering, this is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the cutting-edge technology of Tesla’s products and shape the future. It comes natural to you to deliver results under high pressure with tight schedules. 

The level of this position will be determined at the time of the interview. 

What You’ll Do

Apply solid knowledge of reliability methods as well as low voltage electronics to design accelerated test plans for design validation and demonstration of reliability growth 

Analyze field usage and environmental conditions to optimize requirement setting and test methods 

Facilitate and lead design FMEA sessions to assess product risks, determine validation test plans and drive reliable design choices 

Work with design, test, manufacturing quality, supplier quality, and service engineering to identify root causes and drive resolution for failures originating in testing and in the field 

Generate process validation test plans to implement at suppliers, and drive root cause corrective action with suppliers to resolve production process issues 

Provide reliability design guidelines and apply reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement 

What You’ll Bring

Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience

2+ years of experience working on low voltage electronic assemblies, such as electronic control units (ECUs), computers, sensors, or connectivity, in automotive or related high-reliability applications 

Proficiency in understanding the intricacies and failure modes of low voltage systems within electric vehicles 

Strong experience in electrical design, including ability to interrogate circuit diagrams, wiring diagrams, and component layouts for reliability risks 

Working knowledge of applied statistics, and experience with statistical software such as JMP 

Familiarity with Reliability software such as ReliaSoft Synthesis Platform, including Weibull++ 

Experience with failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM, EDX, CT, FTIR, X-ray 

Self-driven and focused individual with a proven ability to manage parallel tasks effectively, with a desire to work in a fast-paced environment

PALO ALTO, California

Full time