Tesla Energy is looking for an experienced and skilled engineering leader to lead the residential energy hardware team. The role requires both strong technical and people skills and a track record to back up both. You should be comfortable debugging hardware issues in the lab, steering major product architecture reviews, and scoping team goals and expectations. You'll be responsible for both technical innovation and engineering process improvement - making the best energy products in the world better, while improving our design cycle timing and efficiency.

The Team:

The Residential Energy mechanical design team is an fast moving & innovative team responsible for Tesla products like Powerwall, Energy Gateway, and Tesla Solar Inverter. You will be responsible for ownership and design of a family of energy products from concept to mass production. You will own all aspects of performance, reliability, and manufacturability of these products. This is one of the few teams at the company that works on both core Tesla tech, high power distribution, while also working on products that everyday people interact with.

• Build positive team culture and maintain strong relationships with cross-functional teams. Direct mechanical design engineers in full lifecycle product development
• Own the system level design of energy products through production, launch, and ramp
• Collaborate & drive other teams inside Tesla (manufacturing, test, NPI, supply Chain)
• Drive engineering process improvements within the team
• Lead design and architecture reviews of mechanical systems and components. Review detailed mechanical design analysis including thermal, structural, design for assembly, and design for test.
• Generate and maintain product and component design requirements
• Drive prioritization & goals for the team
• Nurture the career growth and development of your team

• 8 years of mechanical product design experience. A track record of taking multiple products to market.
• 3 years of management experience or experience in a technical leadership role
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent
• An empathetic team player who loves working with other people
• Strong engineering fundamentals across a breadth of disciplines (thermals, fluids, structural mechanics)
• Experience designing for high-volume assembly and manufacturing & a variety of manufacturing techniques (injection molding, stamping, casting, etc.)
• Experience designing products for outdoor environments, including IP/NEMA environmental seals
• Experience defining test plans, designing test setups, and analyzing data
• A detail-oriented personality with solid documentation and reporting skills
• A skilled communicator who can communicate status and priorities up and down the management chain
• Proficiency in CAD modeling. CATIA V5/V6 experience a plus but not mandatory
• Experience with parametric CAD and the desire to drive CAD best practices across the team, preferred
• Knowledge of thermal system design and experience driving thermal system optimization, preferred
• Experience with battery engineering including design to UL9540A, preferred
• Experience with obtaining compliance and certification to global standards, preferred
• Knowledge of GD&T, finite element analysis, and design for reliability concepts, preferred
• Experience with environmental, reliability, safety, and industry standard requirements for industrial products, preferred
• Experience with design for EMC, preferred

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