Manufacturing Engineer, Battery Dispense Process

Role details

What to Expect

Tesla is looking to hire a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer to own factory deployment and production ramp of high-voltage battery dispense processes for Optimus. You'll work at the intersection of product, process, and automation, industrializing cutting-edge from Battery Joining processes, driving equipment design and validation, and delivering yield, quality, and cycle time performance through launch and volume ramp.

What You'll Do

• Collaborate closely with the process development team to deploy and scale highly automated dispense processes from prototype to stable and fully validated
• Guide cross-functional down-selection of equipment, tooling, and process parameters with Development, Equipment, Quality, and Production counterparts
• Partner with product design to translate design constraints into realistic process requirements and how to strategically absorb product changes without sacrificing yield or cycle time
• Drive design specifications, design reviews, and buy-off criteria for automation equipment that performs dispense (adhesives, potting, sealants, form-in-place gaskets, and related structural joining)
• Leverage data driven decision making to root-cause production issues and drive the optimal outcome
• Optimize deployed processes to hit yield, quality, and cycle time targets; own process capability and control through ramp
• Build and maintain the factory process knowledge base: standards, work instructions, PFMEA/control plans, and lessons learned from launch and production

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of engineering, or equivalent relevant experience, with demonstrated ownership of high-volume manufacturing processes
• Hands-on experience deploying and sustaining dispense and structural joining processes at volume (adhesives, potting, sealants, form-in-place gaskets, curing), including product interfaces, materials, process windows, and automation equipment
• Experience writing equipment specifications, running design reviews, and accepting automation that must meet process capability, quality, and cycle time requirements
• Proven root-cause and process-optimization skill: yield loss, cycle time, and production issues closed with designed experiments, capability data, and line-side problem solving
• Proficiency in Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) and experimental design
• Degree in Engineering, or equivalent experience

Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.