Power Electronics Test Engineer

Power Electronics Test Engineer Semi
Palo Alto, California
Client: Tesla

Job description:
We are looking to hire entry and early-career Electrical Test and Senior Test Engineers focused on Power Electronics for our Hardware Testing team. As a Power Electronics Test Engineer, you will work with a passionate and multi-disciplinary group of engineers while learning how to build and use hardware, firmware, and software solutions to validate Tesla Power Electronics products to rigorous internal and automotive-industry standards. We are interested in diverse candidates with 0-5 years of relevant experience, and we will prioritize curious and driven engineers with strong problem solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, instrument, and automate testing equipment for electrical, thermal, and mechanical testing
• Work together with Design Engineers, Reliability scientists, Material scientists, Quality, and Service to identify failure modes and generate design validation and reliability test plans
• Perform component-level, system-level, and vehicle-level validation and reliability testing, simulating realistic and accelerated dynamic and environmental conditions
• Collaborate with test technicians as peers to achieve test objectives
• Investigate Power Electronics assembly and subassembly failures to drive product development and test improvement
• Identify and execute experiments targeting new technologies or critical failures
• Interface and simulate complex vehicular systems to validate firmware/hardware interactions
• Create Client ways to apply skills learned in the test lab to benefit vehicle products

What You'll Bring

• Basic working knowledge of Analog, Digital, and Power Electronics Circuits, general knowledge in Power Electronics, DCDC or DCAC Converters, High Voltage Circuits, Motor Drive/Control Circuit, Sensing circuits, and Microcontrollers is preferred
• Working experience with electrical test equipment (such as multimeters, DAQs, oscilloscopes, power supplies, and function generator) and hand tools and power tools
• Familiar with an object-oriented coding language and scripting (Python, MATLAB, etc.), experience in Python and data visualization is preferred
• Comfort with EDA software of Altium, OrCAD, Cadence, Eagle or equivalent. Working knowledge of mechanical CAD software of SolidWorks, CATIA or equivalent is preferred
• Basic understanding of Statics, Mechanics of Materials, Fluids, Heat Transfer, Measurement and Instrumentation, and Linear Circuits
• Formal or informal experience with one or more of the following is preferred: Automotive components or systems, or vehicles in general, physical testing and analysis of electrical, thermal, or mechanical systems, any form of automation (manufacturing, robotics, testing, personal hobbies, etc.)
• Experience creating and executing design validation plans and test methods to validate performance requirements is preferred
• Comfort with balancing competing priorities and timelines and aligning those prioritizations with cross-functional team
• An appetite for technical problem solving