Emergency Response Engineer, Product Safety Engineering
About The Position
As a key member of the Product Safety Engineering Group at Tesla, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safety of our innovative products across vehicles, energy, and robotics. Our team focuses on understanding extreme real-world scenarios to inform product design and lead the industry in safety standards. In this role, you will research firefighting solutions, develop internal safety standards and processes, and communicate technical concepts to support the creation of emergency response and public-facing documents. Research and test novel and proposed firefighting tools and techniques Develop internal standards and processes to continuously improve the safety of Tesla products Support the creation of emergency response documents, focusing on firefighting and high-voltage system response for vehicles, energy products, and robotics Bring engineering expertise to multidisciplinary groups, including non-technical members Impact policy internally and within the industry on emergency response issues related to Tesla technologies
Requirements
- Master's Degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, or Fire Protection, or equivalent experience
- Fundamentals in thermal, mechanical, and electrical engineering
- Ability to interact collaboratively across a variety of groups
- Practical, hands-on, can-do attitude
- Willingness to travel approximately 25% of the time
Nice To Haves
- Firefighting and emergency response experience a plus
- Lithium-ion, automotive, or grid-scale energy storage experience a plus
Responsibilities
- Research and test novel and proposed firefighting tools and techniques
- Develop internal standards and processes to continuously improve the safety of Tesla products
- Support the creation of emergency response documents, focusing on firefighting and high-voltage system response for vehicles, energy products, and robotics
- Bring engineering expertise to multidisciplinary groups, including non-technical members
- Impact policy internally and within the industry on emergency response issues related to Tesla technologies
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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
