What to Expect

Come join us as we build the power system of the future with clean and sustainable energy! Come help the Tesla team design, model, and integrate our solar-battery-charging ecosystem to enable this green energy transformation.

Tesla is looking for power systems engineers to build on our in-house modeling and controller-hardware-in-loop (CHIL) testing capability for our energy storage, solar, and electric charging systems at mass scales.  You will interface with utilities, independent power providers, and system operators in technical power systems discussions, and influence our systems design to facilitate scaling on the grid.  You will be responsible for developing detailed models of our technology and controls strategies operating on the grid and forming microgrids of different sizes.  The role is diverse, fast-paced, and spans multiple levels of electrical, controls, and grid-operations.

What You’ll Do
Create plant controls and dynamic models in real time simulations tools for pre-commissioning testing of grid scale BESS projects
Perform modelling and CHIL testing to ensure that the product behavior meets the product’s design specification and project’s requirement. As needed, improve models or work with the product team to influence system architecture/controls or work with the customer to set clear expectations of the intended behavior
Continue to increase our in-house capability to model Tesla’s product in CHIL testing environment to test the product power system’s dynamics behavior when connected to the large and small grids
Improve and build CHIL test setups and automate them to perform studies in a time efficient way with clear indexing/documentation of a large test data set
Work with both the product design team and the control teams to keep models current with the technology roadmap
What You’ll Bring
Hands on experience of working on at least one HIL tool: RTDS, Typhoon, OPAL-RT
Setting up and debugging full HIL testing systems including physical and software setups of meters, relays, controllers (like RTAC), network switches/protocols, power supplies, oscilloscopes, and interface cards
Working knowledge in at least one power system modelling tools: PSCAD/EMTP-RV, PSSE, PF
Experience of working on automation scripts and control design using at least one programming language: Python, Rust, C, C++, or Go
Direct experience of using HIL setup for modelling large and small grids with understanding of grid level performance requirements
Expert knowledge of control theory and power systems
Advanced degree with focus in power systems or control preferred
Communicate findings in a concise & clear manner and ability to work cross functionally with customers, engineering, business development, and deployment personnel

Palo Alto, California

Full time