What to Expect

The successful candidate will have extensive theoretical and hands-on experience in all facets of various mechanical joining technologies and related equipment, as well as experience managing new product introductions, joint design and optimization.

What You’ll Do
Work with responsible design groups for designing joints, and torque/load calculations 
Responsible for creating, designing, validating and analyzing, each joint on the Tesla products and responsible for Rotary Tool, Residual, Repair Torque value creations for each criticality level joint 
Lead and assist production in all quality and process related torque/clamp load topics and issues

Project management: implementing correct torque value for both in house and Tier assembled joints
Work with Joining/Fastener Laboratory to prioritize, execute and report each joint test
Manage joint verification process, implementation, and improve Joint Calculator by creating more precise data, new features, improving UI 
Ensuring of implementation of correct torque value for both in house and Tier assembled joints 
What You’ll Bring
BS/MS Degree in Mechanical, Materials Engineering or equivalent
Exceptional understanding of the interactions between the torque, clamp load, friction

5+ years of experience in fastener engineering or related field

Experience developing torque values based on design requirements

5+ years of experience of 2D and 3D design (Catia V5 Preferred) 

Experience on fastener/joint tests, (e.g. destructive and non-destructive tests clamp load, torque, joint slip test)

Experience with GD&T and quality control

Fremont, California

Full time