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Electronic Design Engineer - Power Electronics

  • Palo Alto (Santa Clara County)
  • Design / Civil engineering / Industrial engineering

Job description

Description

The Role

Tesla’s Power Electronics group is looking for a skilled and motivated electrical engineer to design and develop control electronics for energy conversion products intended to be used in Tesla vehicles and energy storage and generation equipment .

Responsibilities

·  Design and development of digital electronics and communication busses for power electronics systems.
·  Design and development of analog electronics and signal conditioning for power electronics systems.
·  Design and development of power electronics circuits such as flybacks, buck converters, boost converters, etc. for on board power supplies.
·  Printed circuit board layout and routing of electronics providing maximum circuit density, minimizing electromagnetic emissions, and maximizing immunity.
·  Collaborative work with mechanical, digital control, thermal design, manufacturing test, and DVT engineers.
·  Start to finish ownership of control board electronics – from specification to design, prototype, and manufacturing.

Required Skills

·  BS or higher degree in Electrical Engineering (MSEE preferred.)
·  Relevant coursework or work experience.
·  Experience in selection and use of DSPs, microcontrollers, and programmable logic devices and their peripheral circuitry (signal conditioning, board-level power supplies.)
·  Experience in development of digital and analog interfaces for PC-based test systems, especially (Labview, Matlab, Python).
·  Medium to high volume DFT and DFM.
·  Experience in supervision of PCB layout, plane definition, and EMC optimization.
·  Proficiency with basic EE tools (scopes, network analyzers, etc.)
·  Embedded programming of DSPs and FPGAs in real-time control applications.

Preferred Skills

·  Knowledge in basic control theory, including importance of sensor bandwidths, design of compensation networks.
·  Knowledge in automotive environmental, reliability, and safety requirements.
·  Knowledge in automotive networking (e.g. CAN, LIN) standards.
·  Knowledge in power semiconductors and switched mode power conversion.

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