Tesla Looking for Mechanical Design Engineer, Seating at Fremont, CA Full Time

As an integrated part of Tesla’s Vehicle Engineering team; you will conceptualize, design, engineer and manage Seating System parts and products. You shall be part and product responsible. 

Primarily contributing to the team with your expertise on Structural components (stampings, welding, bolted joints, castings, engineering composites, etc.).

The essence of your job would be to exceed the automotive industry expectations for safety and usability of the Seating systems always based on engineering first principles while employing the Design Engineering process which includes the following:

·                Problem understanding and definition. 

·                Target setting. 

·                Concept generation and evaluation. 

·                Product strategy and architecture planning. 

·                Negotiation, balancing and management of product attributes    

               including safety, functionality, comfort, aesthetics, cost, mass, schedule, sustainability. 

·                Validation and optimization through including prototype making, physical testing, CAE      simulations, design reviews. 

·                3D model and 2D drawing creation. 

·                Bill of Materials creation. 

·                Detail design including datum & fixation strategy, GD&T, DFM. 

·                Collaboration with external organizations. 

·                Technical documentation creation for official use and communication. 

·                Schedule and milestone management. 

·                Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering or similar. 

·                Evidence of exceptional ability. 

·                Design engineering experience with demonstrated interest in multidisciplinary engineering. 

·                Hands on experience where you have built something. 

·                Hand-sketching [one of the many engineering languages]. 

·                Automotive engineering with seating experience is preferred but not mandatory. 

·                Organized.