Data Engineer, Quality, Megafactory

The Energy Quality Team in Houston is looking for a Data Engineer to support Quality Engineering initiatives onsite.

Responsibilities:

• Support automation of production controls, defect prediction, advanced statistics, automate data pipelines, and maintain respective databases.
• Create live visualization tools to enable quality assurance for Tesla Energy products.
• Define requirements and perform validation of manufacturing execution systems.
• Analyze manufacturing equipment and product field data and extract useful statistics and insights about failures to drive meaningful improvements to production quality and customer experience.
• Work effectively with Engineers and conduct end-to-end analyses from data requirement gathering to data processing and modeling.
• Monitor key product metrics, understanding root causes of changes.
• Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques, and provide ongoing reports.
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets and depict the story via dashboards and reports.
• Maintain existing data visualizations, data pipelines, and dashboard enhancement requests.
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems to empower operational and exploratory analysis.
• Perform data quality validations to ensure data creation is as per the business needs and expectations.

Requirements:

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience writing software with Python.
• Experience with multiple data architecture paradigms, e.g., SQL, NoSQL, Kafka, Spark.
• Experience and interest in frontend development, preferably with the JavaScript/React framework.
• Knowledge of various data communication protocols, e.g., REST API, WebSocket.
• Able to work under pressure while collaborating and managing competing demands with tight deadlines.

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.
• 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).
• 401k 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.