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 processrisk assessment, production quality inspection standards and reliabilityprojections focusing on vendor cell production. Candidate is expected to leador support quality focused multidisciplinary cell-related projects, typicallyinvolving R&D, Design or Production organization. Must demonstrate theability to effectively interface with employees throughout the company rangingfrom production associates to executives within Tesla and with suppliers. Theengineer must be extremely organized, detail orientated, with strong ability toprioritize and multitask, successfully collaborate on projects with a range ofbusiness objectives. This person must exhibit the knowledge, leadership, anddrive needed to not only challenge the status quo, but also define and executethe optimal path forward.

• Implement quality control for cell processes/test models toensure proper detection and outlier rejection criteria at Fremont production
• Perform risk assessment with process engineers for properdocumentation of control plan, pfmea/dfmea, ppap, IQC/OQC metrics along withsupporting key production metrics to achieve yield, OEE
• Provide support to cell quality lab on field return casesand necessary reliability tests for validation
• Develop quality inspection tools to support day-to-dayproduction activities including sampling frequency for defect rates andnecessary test criteria to prevent containment/scrap
• Analyze Field Reliability/Quality data for cell relatedfailures and failure modes to predict expected failure rates, affectedpopulations, verify effectiveness of the corrective actions at Tesla and atsuppliers
• Support manufacturing introductions of new in-housemanufacturing lines and mass production cell models
• Produce cogent and intelligible data visualizations, authortechnical presentations and summarize high-impact technical findings

• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering,Material Science with 1-2 years of industry experience
• Quality control experience in test/manufacturing environment
• Design of experiments for process optimization
• Demonstrated competence to organize large projectsinternally and externally across various disciplines
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills - abilityto break down complex technical topics and deliver visual technicalpresentations (e.g. PowerPoint) to groups of engineers, scientists, andtechnicians
• Ability to manipulate and record data into and fromdatabases, ingest and analyze data from manufacturing databases - MySQL, SQL,Python, Tableau
• Experience in running reliability or validation tests thathelp in detecting cell level failure modes, life prediction models usingpython/MATLAB or other softwares

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