Manufacturing Engineer, Battery Dispense Process

What to Expect

Tesla is looking to hire a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer to own factory deployment and production ramp of high-voltage battery dispense processes for Optimus. You'll work at the intersection of product, process, and automation, industrializing cutting-edge from Battery Joining processes, driving equipment design and validation, and delivering yield, quality, and cycle time performance through launch and volume ramp.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate closely with the process development team to deploy and scale highly automated dispense processes from prototype to stable and fully validated

• Guide cross-functional down-selection of equipment, tooling, and process parameters with Development, Equipment, Quality, and Production counterparts 

• Partner with product design to translate design constraints into realistic process requirements and how to strategically absorb product changes without sacrificing yield or cycle time 

• Drive design specifications, design reviews, and buy-off criteria for automation equipment that performs dispense (adhesives, potting, sealants, form-in-place gaskets, and related structural joining) 

• Leverage data driven decision making to root-cause production issues and drive the optimal outcome 

• Optimize deployed processes to hit yield, quality, and cycle time targets; own process capability and control through ramp 

• Build and maintain the factory process knowledge base: standards, work instructions, PFMEA/control plans, and lessons learned from launch and production 

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of engineering, or equivalent relevant experience, with demonstrated ownership of high-volume manufacturing processes  

• Hands-on experience deploying and sustaining dispense and structural joining processes at volume (adhesives, potting, sealants, form-in-place gaskets, curing), including product interfaces, materials, process windows, and automation equipment 

• Experience writing equipment specifications, running design reviews, and accepting automation that must meet process capability, quality, and cycle time requirements 

• Proven root-cause and process-optimization skill: yield loss, cycle time, and production issues closed with designed experiments, capability data, and line-side problem solving 

• Proficiency in Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) and experimental design 

• Degree in Engineering, or equivalent experience 

Compensation and Benefits

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 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 (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: 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