Tesla

Tesla’s Mobile Robotics team designs and builds humanoid bi-pedal robots (Tesla Bot) to automate repetitive tasks and wheeled robots for manufacturing and autonomous logistics. The team joins mechanical, electrical, controls, software, and manufacturing engineering disciplines in a highly collaborative team.

This Engineer will architect the cutting-edge electronic system for our robots, design printed circuit boards and own them from concept to production. Experience in designing high volume circuit boards and/or robotic electronics is ideal. We love when candidates show real-world projects with electronics they’ve designed.

Responsibilities

• Develop electrical cabinets for use with industrial robotics, including custom PCB layout, harness layout, and off-the-shelf part selection
• Start to finish ownership of projects: specification, architecture, circuit design, simulation, schematic, layout supervision, prototype, validation, and manufacturing support
• Rapidly iterate as architecture evolves
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team of mechanical, electrical, and software engineers
• Thoroughly document design requirements, calculations, power budgets, validation results
  

Requirements

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional abilities
• Experience developing electronic systems for robots
• Programming ability (Python, embedded C/C++)
• 2+ years of circuit board design and/or industrial cabinet design experience
• Competent in PCB CAD software (Altium preferred)
• Understanding of analog & digital circuits (motor control, MOSFETs, op-amps, switching regulators, gate drivers, microcontrollers, SPI, I2C, etc.)
• Proficiency with lab equipment and troubleshooting
• Communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, EtherCAT)
• Examples of end-to-end ownership of electronics design projects