What are the responsibilities and job description for the Firmware Validation Engineer, Supercharger, Semi position at Tesla Motors, Inc.?
What to Expect
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
Compensation and Benefits
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
The Supercharger Team is responsible for Tesla's public fast charging products.As an engineer on this team, you will be responsible for testing our EV charger features to ensure the quality and safety of the charging experience for both Tesla owners and third party EVs.You will architect, design, and implement firmware validation procedures, equipment, tooling, and automation to efficiently test charging components and subsystems.You will work closely with development and integration teams to explore and validate the performance capabilities of our hardware and firmware to ensure code quality is high.Your effort to create and equip automated validation infrastructures and coverage reporting will have a direct impact on the reliability, robustness, and value of our products. Your impact will help the world's acceleration to energy sustainability.
What You'll Do
- Design advanced automated test suitesfor the Hardware/Processor/Software-in-the-loop (HIL/PIL/SIL)
- Architect methods of integrating the automated test suites into development processes
- Create reporting mechanisms for automated testing for firmware and hardware
- Work alongside the development and integration teams to create automatedregressiontests
- Assist in creating unit tests
- Explore and innovate methods of testing the robustness and quality of the charging firmware
- Understand and deconstruct complicated software systems and devise strategies to test these systems
- Create and execute test plans designed to expose weakness or faults in components
- Report the coverage of the automated tests and the metrics that the code is being evaluated against
- Cohesively work with developers to optimize the acceleration of component validation with the use of metric driven data
What You'll Bring
- Degreein Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineeringor the equivalent in experience with evidence of exceptional ability
- Proficiency inPython, C, C
- 2 years ofrelevant experience in embedded design/validation
- Expertise testing devices and debugging hardware (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, DMM)
- Desire to participate in improving code robustness and designing testing infrastructure
- Experience inelectronicand systemschematic design & capture (Altium Designer) preferred
- Experience withDockerpreferred
- Experience designing or interfacing with testsetupspreferred
- Knowledge of source control (Git) and continuous integration (Jenkins) preferred
- Knowledge of EVSE, EVs preferred
Compensation and Benefits
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
Expected Compensation
$140,000 - $210,000/annual salary cash and stock awards benefits
Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Salary : $140,000 - $210,000