Senior Power Electronics Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Tesla's Power Electronics group seeks a skilled electrical engineer to design and develop power electronics converter hardware for Tesla energy products. Responsibilities include the entire hardware lifecycle: specification, design, prototyping, reliability validation, and high-volume manufacturing. Collaboration with other engineering teams is crucial. The role involves architecting and modeling new converter topologies for improved performance, as well as sustaining design activities to enhance product quality, cost, and manufacturability. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in power converter design and a deep understanding of power electronics topologies.
Must have:
- Power converter design experience
- Understanding of power electronics topologies (AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC)
- High voltage power semiconductor selection expertise
- Proficiency in schematic capture and simulation tools
- Experience with PCB layout optimization
- Skilled in using basic EE tools
Job Details
What to Expect What You’ll DoWhat You’ll Bring
Tesla’s Power Electronics group is looking for a skilled and motivated electrical engineer to design and develop Power Electronics converter hardware intended to be used in Tesla energy products.
- Design and build hardware of power electronics converters for use in energy applications
- Start to finish ownership of hardware – from specification to design, prototype, reliability validation and high-volume manufacturing
- Collaborate with mechanical, PCB layout, and firmware engineering teams to successfully to design, validate and manufacture power converters
- Architecture and modeling of new power converter topologies that achieve better performance
- Perform sustaining design activities to improve product quality, cost and/or manufacturability of existing power electronics products
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, or the equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
- Relevant hands-on hardware experience in power converter design and strong understanding of power electronics topologies (AC/DC, DC/DC & DC/AC)
- Experience with high voltage power semiconductor selection (Si/SiC/GaN MOSFET’s, Diodes), gate drive and protection circuit design
- Strong knowledge of switching waveforms, semiconductor loss modeling, magnetics, capacitors, and analog/digital circuit design for power conversion
- Proficiency in schematic capture, power converter simulation tools, and PCB layout optimization for manufacturability, EMC, and minimal parasitics optimization.
- Skilled in working with basic EE tools like Oscilloscopes, Network analyzers, Signal Generators, etc.)
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