Manufacturing Engineer, Battery Dispense Process
Description
Tesla is looking to hire a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer to own factory deployment and production ramp of high-voltage battery dispense processes for Optimus. You'll work at the intersection of product, process, and automation, industrializing cutting-edge from Battery Joining processes, driving equipment design and validation, and delivering yield, quality, and cycle time performance through launch and volume ramp.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with the process development team to deploy and scale highly automated dispense processes from prototype to stable and fully validated
- Guide cross-functional down-selection of equipment, tooling, and process parameters with Development, Equipment, Quality, and Production counterparts
- Partner with product design to translate design constraints into realistic process requirements and how to strategically absorb product changes without sacrificing yield or cycle time
- Drive design specifications, design reviews, and buy-off criteria for automation equipment that performs dispense (adhesives, potting, sealants, form-in-place gaskets, and related structural joining)
- Leverage data driven decision making to root-cause production issues and drive the optimal outcome
- Optimize deployed processes to hit yield, quality, and cycle time targets; own process capability and control through ramp
- Build and maintain the factory process knowledge base: standards, work instructions, PFMEA/control plans, and lessons learned from launch and production
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering, or equivalent relevant experience, with demonstrated ownership of high-volume manufacturing processes
- Hands-on experience deploying and sustaining dispense and structural joining processes at volume (adhesives, potting, sealants, form-in-place gaskets, curing), including product interfaces, materials, process windows, and automation equipment
- Experience writing equipment specifications, running design reviews, and accepting automation that must meet process capability, quality, and cycle time requirements
- Proven root-cause and process-optimization skill: yield loss, cycle time, and production issues closed with designed experiments, capability data, and line-side problem solving
- Proficiency in Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) and experimental design
- Degree in Engineering, or equivalent experience
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