Cell Reliability Engineer, Cell Quality & Reliability

The Cell Quality team is a small team within the R&D organization responsible for incoming, production and field reliability. The group projects focus on mass production Li-ion cells for all programs, including Model S, X, 3, and Energy Products.

The position is to support daily quality activities and reliability risk assessment, production quality inspection standards and field return upstream analysis for in-house 4680 cell program at GFTX. Candidate is expected to lead or support quality focused multidisciplinary cell-related projects, typically involving R&D, Design or Production organization. Must demonstrate the ability to effectively interface with employees throughout the company ranging from production associates to executives within Tesla and with suppliers. The engineer must be extremely organized, detail orientated, with strong ability to prioritize and multitask, successfully collaborate on projects with a range of business objectives. This person must exhibit the knowledge, leadership, and drive needed to not only challenge the status quo, but also define and execute the optimal path forward.

• Implement quality control for cell processes/test models to ensure proper detection and outlier rejection criteria at Fremont production
• Perform risk assessment with process engineers for proper documentation of control plan, pfmea/dfmea, ppap, IQC/OQC metrics along with supporting key production metrics to achieve yield, OEE
• Provide support to cell quality lab on field return cases and necessary reliability tests for validation
• Develop quality inspection tools to support day-to-day production activities including sampling frequency for defect rates and necessary test criteria to prevent containment/scrap
• Analyze Field Reliability/Quality data for cell related failures and failure modes to predict expected failure rates, affected populations, verify effectiveness of the corrective actions at Tesla and at suppliers
• Support manufacturing introductions of new in-house manufacturing lines and mass production cell models
• Produce cogent and intelligible data visualizations, author technical presentations and summarize high-impact technical findings
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, or equivalent experience
• 1-2+ years of industry experience
• Quality control experience in test/manufacturing environment
• Design of experiments for process optimization
• Demonstrated competence to organize large projects internally and externally across various disciplines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - ability to break down complex technical topics and deliver visual technical presentations (e.g. PowerPoint) to groups of Engineers, Scientists, and Technicians
• Ability to manipulate and record data into and from databases, ingest and analyze data from manufacturing databases - MySQL, SQL, Python, Tableau
• Experience in running reliability or validation tests that help in detecting cell level failure modes, life prediction models using python/matlab or other softwares

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