What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vehicle Attributes Testing Engineer 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.
Join Tesla's Attributes Engineering Team as a Vehicle Test Engineer focused on chassis and vehicle dynamics, with potential exposure to other full vehicle testing areas. This role involves managing full vehicle and component-level testing operations, ensuring vehicle readiness for development activities, creating and executing test plans, and contributing to standardized test execution. Collaborate closely with program leads and design teams to drive innovation and meet critical deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
What You'll Do
- Oversee specific vehicles from the attributes fleet, ensuring vehicle health, managing reworks, and handling hardware and software troubleshooting
- Develop and manage test plans with the program attribute lead to ensure completion of development objectives
- Coordinate vehicle transports, consumables planning, and communication with test facilities and workshops during testing activities
- Execute standardized full vehicle tests in chassis, vehicle dynamics, and brakes, including objective characterization and subjective evaluation
- Collaborate with attributes program managers and leads to align vehicle test plans with design team release schedules
- Set up instrumentation equipment such as accelerometers, damper pots, IMUs, steering and pedal actuators, and wheel force transducers
- Conduct component-level testing, including operation of test rigs and basic data analysis
What You'll Bring
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Physics, or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in automotive test engineering
- Proficiency in vehicle instrumentation and data analysis using industry-standard tools
- Experience with vehicle dynamics post-processing coding environments
- Familiarity with MoTeC or similar data logging and analysis platforms
- Experience with MS Project and Jira is 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:
- Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical 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 Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna 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
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary 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
$84,000 - $204,000/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 : $84,000 - $204,000