Engineering Technician, Cell Abuse Testing

2 Months ago • All levels • Quality Assurance

Job Summary

Job Description

Tesla seeks a highly driven Engineering Technician for a one-year fixed-term position at its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg. The role involves validating lithium-ion cell and battery safety performance through testing, executing tests to evaluate performance and validate requirements. Responsibilities include performing cell and battery tests using various equipment (cyclers, temperature control fixtures, environmental chambers, data loggers), summarizing results in reports, conducting destructive analysis, and working with hazardous materials. Collaboration with stakeholders and equipment building/commissioning may also be required. The ideal candidate possesses experience with cell/battery testing equipment and data processing software (MATLAB/Python, SQL a plus) and a background in relevant engineering or technical fields. Experience with safety failures, fire/burn testing, and hazardous material handling is highly desirable.
Must have:
  • Experience with cell/battery testing equipment
  • Ability to execute tests independently
  • Data processing skills (MATLAB/Python a plus)
  • Relevant engineering/technical background
  • Hazardous material handling experience
Good to have:
  • Experience with SQL
  • Experience with safety failures/fire/burn testing

Job Details

What to Expect

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency.

Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this are our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.

We are looking for a highly driven technician who will work in a team to validate lithium ion cell and battery safety performance through testing. They will execute tests to evaluate performance and validate requirements. This position is fixed-term for one year.

What You’ll Do
  • Be a member of a cross functional product development team and perform cell and/or battery tests according to SOPs and internal standards. Own laboratory tasks and responsibilities.
  • Execution of cell and/or battery tests using cyclers, specialized temperature control fixtures, environmental test chambers and data loggers.
  • Perform cell vibration tests and execution of CT scans after training.
  • Summarize results in test reports.
  • Perform destructive analysis/teardowns of cells and/or batteries to analyze reliability and performance issues.
  • Projects require to work with hazardous materials using mandated PPE and setting up and performing tests in person.
  • As needed: Collaborate with external stakeholders and oversee testing.
  • As needed: Build, assemble and commission equipment for testing.
  • Other tasks as required.
  • What You’ll Bring
  • Experience with test equipment for cell and/or battery testing (cyclers, environmental chambers, DAQs) or comparable experience with electrical test equipment.
  • Ability to execute tests independently and reliably
  • Initial experience in MATLAB/Python or other software for data processing is a plus, SQL is a plus.
  • Background in electrical, mechanical, process, automotive, automation, aerospace, chemical engineering, chemistry, physics. Laboratory technicians/chemical technical assistants and comparable are also considered
  • Candidates with profound hands-on experience in analysis of safety failures, fire/burn testing,  hazardous material handling are encouraged to apply.
  • Driving license class B (normal car) is required. 
  • Fluent in English, German is a plus.
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