Senior Mechanical Reliability Engineer, Megapack

2 weeks ago


Palo Alto, California, United States Tesla Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Mechanical Reliability Engineer to join our team at Tesla, focusing on the Megapack. As a key member of our reliability team, you will play a critical role in designing and ensuring the reliability of our industrial energy storage systems.

Responsibilities
  1. Facilitate Design FMEA Sessions: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate risks, drive reliable design choices, and inform validation testing.
  2. Set and Communicate Reliability Requirements: Establish and communicate reliability targets for site, product, subsystem, and components.
  3. Define Reliability Test Plans: Develop test plans, design test conditions, set test duration, and sample size based on physics of failure modeling and accelerated life testing principles.
  4. Analyze Lab and Field Data: Investigate reliability trends, forecast reliability estimates using statistical analysis, and recommend design improvements.
  5. Communicate and Drive Test Plans: Effectively communicate test plans, results, learnings, and recommendations to various stakeholders within the organization.
  6. Closely Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with test, reliability data science, design, architecture modeling, service, and quality teams to identify potential reliability issues and drive corrective actions.
  7. Research Failure Mechanisms: Investigate failure mechanisms to build more robust validation plans and influence design choices.
  8. Drive Reliability Assessments: Conduct reliability assessments in product design reviews and clearly communicate risk at each phase of product development and for released products.
  9. Influence Supplier Selection: Provide clear guidance on reliability requirements and demonstration to suppliers.
  10. Facilitate Failure Analysis: Investigate root causes of failures occurring during product development phases.
  11. Provide Reliability Design Guidelines: Develop and apply reliability lessons learned to enable continuous improvement.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field
  • Five years of experience in a Reliability Engineering role or equivalent experience
  • Understanding of accelerated testing methods, governing equations, and physics of failure for different failure mechanisms
  • Understanding of applied statistics and reliability statistics (Weibull distribution, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Bayesian methods, Monte Carlo analysis, etc.)
  • Understanding of Accelerated Degradation modeling and reliability prediction methods
  • Knowledge of material degradation mechanisms and their impact on mechanical performance
  • Experience analyzing test results and interpreting reliability insights
  • Knowledge of reliability growth techniques, such as Crow-AMSAA and Crow Extended
  • Knowledge of the ReliaSoft Synthesis Platform, including Weibull++, BlockSim, ALTA, RGA, and xFMEA
  • Working knowledge of failure analysis techniques such as optical microscopy, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy), CSAM (Confocal Scanning Acoustic Microscopy), X-ray, cross-sectioning, and EDX
  • Working knowledge of programming languages, preferably Python or Matlab
Benefits

As a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

  • Aetna PPO and HSA plans
  • Family-building, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
  • Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans
  • Company Paid (Health Savings Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna medical plan with HSA
  • Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • LGBTQ+ care concierge services
  • 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
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays
  • Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
Voluntary Benefits

Additionally, you may choose to enroll in the following voluntary benefits:

  • 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
Expected Compensation

The expected compensation for this role is $84,000 - $222,000/annual salary + cash and stock awards + benefits. Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.



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