CAD/PLM Support Engineer (m/w/d) - Berlin, Germany

What to Expect

Tesla is seeking an experienced CAD/PLM Support Engineer to join our Design Technology department in a high-impact support role. You will enable engineers in the Vehicle Engineering team to work at peak efficiency by unblocking CAD-specific issues, addressing inefficient methodologies, and continuously improving our CAD and PLM environment. You will serve as a key enabler, trainer, and liaison, helping Tesla deliver best-in-class vehicles through smarter, faster, and more standardized CAD practices. 

What You’ll Do

• Diagnosing and resolving issues occurring across our CAD/PLM platform (3DEXPERIENCE) as well as related engineering tools 
• Identify recurring failure modes and feed them into runbooks or training content to reduce re-occurrence of the same issues 
• Provide regular basic CAD training to new hires in the Vehicle Engineering organization, plus targeted on-demand training as needed 
• Assist with office hours and create how-to content for common CAD/PLM tasks 
• Develop CAD methods, methodologies, engineering/CAD templates, and workflows that continuously improve efficiency in Engineering and drive greater standardization in CAD modeling and simulation 
• Act as the primary link between the Vehicle Engineering organization (reporting issues or improvement ideas) and the development specialists in Design Technology organization 
• Support and act as expert for Design Technology internal improvement, deprecation or deployment projects 
• Manage communication with the CAD vendor to resolve issues that cannot be addressed internally 

What You’ll Bring

• At least 5 years of experience as a Mechanical Design Engineer in the automotive or aerospace industry, ideally across multiple design teams 
• Extensive CAD modeling experience in CATIA/3DEXPERIENCE 
• Advanced CAD simulation experience in SIMULIA to teach engineers to validate their current design ideas early in the development phase 
• Hands-on CAD modeling experience across diverse part types, including injection-molded parts, castings, stampings, and sheet metal 
• Proven experience delivering CAD training to engineers 
• Experience in creating and using simulations to validate current CAD designs and identify deficiencies early 
• Experience in other non-modeling specific apps and concepts in the 3DEXPERIENCE platform (e.g., Change and Configuration Management) would be ideal for this role  
• Experience with other CAD systems esp. SolidWorks is helpful but not required