Systems Engineer, Drive Unit NVH, Semi
About The Position
Tesla is seeking a highly motivated Engineer to lead NVH for our high-volume automated functional test equipment (such as dynamometers) with the Drive Unit Test team in Palo Alto, CA. You will work closely with Tesla’s internal Product Design, Production and Quality Engineering teams and lead cross-functional activities to deploy new Drive Unit NVH test systems. You will assume full ownership of the design, development, and optimization of the NVH test process along with leading the technical transfer of the knowledge to Tesla factory teams so they can own and sustain long term. Develop, improve and document NVH test profiles and metric calculations to detect defects and optimize production yield for our drive unit products globally
Requirements
- Strong understanding of acoustics and vibration principles like order analysis, modal analysis, digital signal processing and sound quality metrics
- Experience specifying, validating and working with NVH test equipment including impact hammers, shakers, PU probes, accelerometers and microphones and software (Signal X, LMS Testlab)
- Familiarity with CAN-based data acquisition and processing
- Experience analyzing large data sets to process improvements (SQL, Python, JMP, Minitab)
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Analyze production NVH data to identify expected and actual impacts of product design changes and ensure seamless integration with drive unit design and factory teams
- Correlate NVH data with mechanical and electrical system behaviors along with vehicle-level performance to define objective metric limits
- Support equipment development of our production NVH Testers (Dynos)
- Collaborate with the product design, supply chain, and factory teams to drive improvements in our products and factories
Benefits
- 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
