What to Expect

Tesla’s Chassis Controls team is seeking a Steering Systems Integration Engineer who will be a systems expert on steering control functions and will be responsible for ensuring that new steering software features are designed, implemented, and validated to achieve Tesla’s standards for safety and customer experience.  

As a Steering Systems Integration Engineer, you are expected to be an expert of your system, have a deep understanding of software – hardware dependencies and be able to communicate constraints, risks, and mitigations to guide vehicle programs. You will employ sound systems engineering principles to guide a team of engineers through safety critical software development. You may need to wear multiple hats throughout the life of a program based on your system’s needs from performing fleet data analytics to writing code. You are expected to move projects along at an aggressive pace – keeping track of program milestones and deliverables and pulling together the contributions of many teams into a cohesive final product. You will also need to get your hands dirty in the details – dig through source code, root cause issues, and propose solutions to complex problems, as well as test prototype firmware implementations in-vehicle at proving grounds around the world.  

What You’ll Do

Work with the design and development engineers throughout the engineering organization to ensure systems are designed with appropriate requirements, interfaces, and interactions to achieve specific vehicle functions 
Develop overall validation strategy for these features and work with validation teams to ensure test coverage and traceability 
Work cross-functionally across mechanical, electrical, system architecture, firmware development and firmware validation teams to understand new component-level hardware changes and support them in firmware – both in manufacturing and for customer use – so that they can be seamlessly introduced to our vehicle platforms  
Develop and execute firmware integration test plans on new hardware components and firmware features to rapidly retire risk from new designs and provide feedback to the development teams 
Work with manufacturing and service to ensure the functions are rolled out and functioning properly. This can include development of processes, diagnostic tools and methods, and root-cause diagnosis for product issues  
Design prototype test setups to integrate new subsystems with simulated and actual vehicle components  
Lead and participate in functional safety analysis of complex software systems 
Develop the safety concept, lead HARA, DFMEAs and guide software design 

What You’ll Bring

Degree in Mechatronics, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent in experience  
Experience with systems involving multiple networked microprocessors and smart electro-mechanical actuators 
Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and leading through influence 
Experience with analyzing data to develop technical insights and make decisions 
Ability to multi-task and context switch between orthogonal projects running in parallel  
Ability to communicate complex technical topics across organizational levels and functions 
Experience with C and Python are preferred   
Experience with vehicle systems and chassis controls preferred  
Experience with CAN and Vector tools preferred  
Experience with DFMEAs, HARAs, ISO 26262 development preferred

PALO ALTO, California

Full time