Electrical Engineer - System Integration/Harness Development Req. ID: 1049 Office Location: Palo Alto # of openings: 1 Job Shift: Job Type: Full timeDescription * Electrical Engineer - System Integration/Harness Development (Location: Palo Alto, California) About Tesla Motors Tesla Motors is leading the world in the production of highway-capable battery-powered electrical vehicles. The company makes thrilling products, provides an exciting work environment, and is leading the transportation industries toward significant improvements in energy efficiency in vehicles. Tesla Motors is seeking an Electrical engineer who has had 3-5 years of electrical system integration and harnesses design in production vehicle applications. This engineer will be responsible for the delivery of vehicle subsystem electrical harnesses, including establishing requirements, system integration, design of the harness schematic, connector selection and conductor analysis and sizing, documentation of the design, and managing prototype and production suppliers to build harnesses. This engineer must have a proven track-record of delivering products to meet program requirements (including timing and budget requirements) This engineer must be eager to work in start-up company environment with great opportunities for growth and spectacular achievement. This Role Requires: -have a passion about electrical system development, inventing solutions, and finding better and simpler ways to meet product requirements. -have a quick and flexible approach to information gathering, design, synthesis, and collaboration. -fluent with technical fundamentals behind harness electrical design, components, mechanical routing, fixing, and protective strategies. -familiarity with device driver topologies and implementation, variable voltage and current drive systems, driving inductive loads, etc -fluency with signals and noise, shielding requirements, EMC/EMI/ESD protection and conformance, grounding practices. -building prototypes, developing and debugging benchtop systems, testing systems in engineering vehicles, supporting production and service to solve problems. -developing and maintaining bills-of-materials and production documentation -reading and developing vehicle-level wiring diagrams and schematics and specifications and pin-out diagrams from component suppliers.. -be comfortable working on multiple projects simultaneously, interacting with multiple teams, and gathering data necessary to succeed delivering high-quality, low-cost solutions on-time and on-budget. -be able to provide technical input to CAD designer and must be able to make technical design decisions and direct a CAD designer to generate 3D models and 2D production documentation. -manage suppliers through until production is stable. An Ideal Candidate Would: -have breadth in electrical engineering and applied areas appropriate for wiring harness development.. -have skills in the lab: debugging electrical problems |
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