What to Expect

Tesla is looking to hire a Sr. Manufacturing Controls Development Engineer to work with advanced vision and measurement processes for our cutting-edge battery products. This position will help drive technological advancement in this area as part of a small, specialized team. Battery development is at the heart of our company, and this is an exciting opportunity to work directly on the central challenges with electric vehicles – battery cost and performance. Tesla is a demanding and fast-paced environment where you will work with a highly motivated team on extremely challenging projects.

What You’ll Do
Evaluate needs and opportunities for value-add vision and measurement processes for new high voltage battery programs
Guide cross-functional selection of optimal measurement or detection strategy and provide vision interface Design for Manufacturability (DFM) input to product designers
Rigorous process and equipment development to achieve target efficacy, repeatability, and performance
Continue application development and validation from early prototype builds through high volume production
Perform proof-of-concept to green light novel methods, technologies, and suppliers
Evolve the machine vision knowledge base through standards and benchmarking
What You’ll Bring
3+ years of engineering or equivalent relevant experience  
Demonstrated experience in the development and implementation of high-volume 2D and 3D machine vision (Keyence, Cognex, Halcon, other) – application design, programming, validation, and troubleshooting 
Experience with one or more additional measurement and inspection technologies (optical sensors, diodes, profilometry, laser measurement, optical scanning, optical metrology, LVDT, CMM, thermal imaging, ultrasonic measurement, X-ray, other)
Programming experience with one or more common languages (Python, OpenCV, C++, other)
Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or equivalent experience

Palo Alto, California

Full time