engineering technician Palo Alto, CA
Job description
SHIFTS COVERING 5PM - 1AM
Tesla’s Mobile Robotics team designs, builds, and deploys systems enabling scalable and flexible manufacturing lines for Tesla's growing product and factory portfolio. Products include multi degree-of-freedom autonomous mobile robots. The team joins mechanical, electrical, software, and manufacturing engineering disciplines in a highly collaborative team.
Engineering Technicians within the Mobile Robotics team work side by side with engineers to support the development of our prototype robots and sub-systems. You’ll be building the first iterations of the machines that make the machines, including highly actuated and electronically/computationally dense robots. You will have a blend of hands-on builds and responsibilities around analysis, testing, and documentation. Projects are open ended and often with limited up front guidance. The successful candidate for this position must have a broad background in mechatronics, industrial, and/or automotive building, maintenance, and testing. Must be a self-starter and able to figure out how to do things independently.
- Work with engineers to fabricate, assemble, and integrate mobile robot prototypes, including mechanical assemblies, electrical systems, wire harnesses, etc.
- Develop test plans and test systems, including building of assembly jigs and
- test/validation systems
- Collaborate with engineering teams to root cause and resolve mechanical and electrical issues
- Provide detailed written & verbal test status updates to key stakeholders
- Support engineering teams in instrumentation and data acquisition setup and logging
- Maintain a lab, ensuring that it is well-stocked with the tools and materials needed to
- make prototype wire harnesses
- Supporting bench-top electrical system builds and testing, including obtaining and tracking
- Support low volume prototype part builds and testing, including obtaining and tracking
- Interface components from other Engineering and Purchasing groups within Tesla
- 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Technician in robotics, automotive service, manufacturing
- Understanding of ultrasonic welding, mechanical assembly design, machining, 3D printing, and laser cutting equipment are preferred but not required
- Previous hands-on experience with high voltage systems, wire harnesses, mechanical components, electro-mechanical devices, soldering irons, wire crimping tools, multi-meters, and oscilloscopes.
- Familiar and comfortable with soldering iron/tweezers, hot air, hand tools and some power tools
- Previous experience with automotive wire harnesses: connectors, contact terminals, ground terminals, cables, clips and taping
- Able to interpret drawings and 3D CAD, and Able to read electrical schematics and harness drawings and create a harness from scratch. Experience in CAD (ex. CATIA, SolidWorks) and/or electrical design (ex. Altium) a plus
- Experience/exposure to PLC programming (ex. Beckhoff) a plus
- Understanding and creating work instructions for installation and part rework, sourcing and buying various tools, hardware components and test equipment
- Knowledge of machine shop practices a plus
- Analytical problem solving skills & root cause analysis
- Experience in manufacturing or factory operations a plus
- 2 year technical/automotive degree preferred
- Must be able to use word and spreadsheet tools (ex. Microsoft Office)
About Tesla
CEO: Elon Musk
Revenue: $1 to $5 billion (USD)
Size: 10000+ Employees
Type: Company - Public
Website: http://www.tesla.com
Year Founded: 2003
