Sr. Electrical Engineer – Power Electronics (m/f/d)

Description

At Tesla Engineering Germany GmbH in Freiburg, we’re building the future of sustainable energy by developing innovative power electronics for energy storage and vehicle charging systems. Join our team to collaborate across different engineering areas, solve meaningful challenges creatively and transfer concepts from initial design, through prototyping and testing into real-world solutions.

This is an opportunity to own key projects, use modern tools, and work in state-of-the-art facilities to create technologies that shape how energy systems evolve. You get to work on advancing power electronics used for Tesla products globally, thereby directly contributing to the acceleration of the world's transition to sustainable energy.

Responsibilities

• Design and build hardware of power electronics converters for use in automotive and energy storage applications.
• Start to finish ownership of hardware – from specification to design, prototype, reliability validation and high-volume manufacturing.
• Collaborate with mechanical, PCB layout, and firmware engineering teams to successfully to design, validate and manufacture power converters.
• Architecture and modeling of new power converter topologies that achieve better performance.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, or the equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability.
• 4 or more years of relevant hands-on hardware experience in power converter (AC/DC, DC/DC & DC/AC) design.
• Strong understanding of power electronics topologies (AC/DC, DC/DC & DC/AC).
• Experience with high voltage power semiconductor selection (Si/SiC/GaN MOSFET’s, Diodes), gate drive and protection circuit design.
• Good understanding of switching waveforms, Semi-conductor losses and experience with loss modeling.
• Solid understanding of the theory and application of magnetics (inductors, transformers) and capacitors (Electrolytic, film and Ceramic) used for power conversion.
• Good experience with design analog/digital circuits and micro-processors.
• Familiar with schematic capture and power converter circuit simulation tools.
• Experience in supervision of PCB layout for minimal stray inductance and capacitance, placement strategies for better manufacturability, power/signal plane definition and EMC optimization.
• Proficiency with basic EE tools (Oscilloscopes, Network analyzers, Signal Generators etc.).