What to Expect
CAE/CFD Engineers on the Battery Team are at the leading edge of the next generation Tesla products. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing and optimizing the performance of revolutionary vehicle and energy storage battery designs. The Battery team help pushing cell performance limits to make incredible products. You will be an innovative and skilled problem solver – using all analytical tools available to you. Where these tools are insufficient or do not exist, you will develop novel methodologies to enable fast and accurate solutions. You will be brilliant both technically as an individual, and as an active member in a diverse and challenging cross-functional team environment. The role requires strong fundamentals, a passion to push the boundaries of technology and the tenacity to make designs successful. Our design requirements push the limits of physical possibility, which requires you to be extremely detail oriented in supporting the design engineers making tradeoffs. Tesla moves quickly, so being self-motivated and disciplined is critical. You must be passionate, but direction changes quickly, so you must be resilient as well.
What You’ll Do
Drive manufacturing centric battery pack/module designs with CAE and CFD, while balancing all applicable requirements with state-of-the-art design and innovative manufacturing methodologies
Perform advanced CAE and CFD simulations to evaluate and enhance sub-systems and full product simulations of specific design attributes and manufacturing processes
Develop and apply advanced methodologies with smart analysis techniques to drive innovation into Tesla products
High skills level in multidisciplinary domains of single and multi-phase CFD, Thermal, Coupled electrical and Thermal CAE
Develop and support subsystem level & full vehicle correlations in line with standard protocols and best practices
Conduct optimization studies by utilizing optimization tools, including DOE/ DFSS techniques on components, assemblies, or vehicle designs to meet performance requirements with the constraints of mass and cost
Perform analyses for feasibility of manufacturing, assembly, and service processes
Provide input in the creation of component specification, component DFMEA, and other technical design documents where analysis plays a pivotal role
Produce concise management summaries and report-outs that meet the needs of management system functions
Collaboration with other modeling and design teams
What You’ll Bring
Deep knowledge of: Finite Element Analysis, Finite Volume Method, CFD, Material Science and Computational Numerical Methods within a product development environment in a transportation industry
Minimum 5+ years of demonstrated successful experience with at least two relevant product lines
Excellent applied experience in COMSOL, ANSYS-FLUENT, STAR CCM+
Applied experience in MATLAB and Simulink preferred
Preferred experience in HV battery design and optimization
Demonstrated experience in stand-alone or coupled analysis of electronic components for thermal, fluid mechanics, electro-magnetism, and structural
Demonstrated ability to work independently on pioneering and challenging problems
Demonstrated ability to deliver analysis on difficult projects with tight timing constraints
Demonstrated ability to deconstruct complex test scenarios with good logic and analytics and root-causing correlation problems
Demonstrated ability in iterative and collaborative automotive-similar engineering environments

Palo Alto, California

Full time