Staff Electrical Design Engineer - SI Compute Motherboard

Job Description

<div class="MSWordContent"><p>Tesla's SI Compute electrical design team builds the system boards that power autonomous driving, humanoid robotics, and the data centers that train and serve our models. You will own complex high-speed motherboards built around Tesla's custom neural-engine silicon and leading x86/Arm processors, balancing inferencing performance, efficiency, cost, and reliability &#8212; from a single vehicle ECU up to scale-up and scale-out clusters in the SI inference data center.&#10;&#10;</div>

Job Responsibilities

• Degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering, or equivalent industry experience
• Demonstrated end-to-end PCBA design ownership with hands-on bring-up, FA, and system test
• 5+ years driving and maintaining schematics in Cadence Allegro System Capture or equivalent
• Complex motherboard experience with high-performance x86/Arm processors and/or custom silicon
• High-speed design experience with PCIe, MIPI, Ethernet, DisplayPort, or USB
• Solid analog and power fundamentals (MOSFETs, op-amps, switching regulators, gate drivers)
• High-power, high-efficiency voltage regulator design and analysis
• Experience shipping high-volume products from concept to mass production
• Proficient with bench tools — oscilloscopes, BERT, network analyzers, signal generators
• Comfortable iterating with mechanical, thermal, and EMC partners under tight, evolving constraints
• Track record of driving suppliers to meet reliability, performance, and scalability targets across the design-to-production lifecycle

Job Requirements

• Degree in Electrical / Computer Engineering, or equivalent industry experience
• Demonstrated end-to-end PCB assembly design ownership, including hands-on bring-up, electrical validation, failure analysis, and system test
• Strong high-speed board design (>10 Gbps) with PCIe, MIPI, Ethernet, DisplayPort, USB, or HDMI
• Complex motherboard experience with high-performance x86/Arm processors and/or custom silicon
• Working knowledge of SI SoC specifications — compute, memory bandwidth, network ingress/egress, peak power, storage — and benchtop bring-up
• Hardware and software co-design experience optimizing inference for large language models
• High-power, high-efficiency voltage regulator design
• Solid analog and power fundamentals (MOSFETs, op-amps, switching regulators, gate drivers)
• Experience shipping high-volume products from concept to mass production
• Comfortable iterating with mechanical, thermal, and EMC partners under tight, evolving constraints
• Track record of driving suppliers to meet reliability, performance, and scalability targets across the design-to-production lifecycle
• Proficient with bench tools — oscilloscopes, BERT, network analyzers, signal generators

Preferred

• PCB layout experience in Cadence Allegro or Altium
• Working knowledge of SI SoC specifications — compute, memory bandwidth, network ingress/egress, peak power, storage — and benchtop bring-up
• Inter-chip communication for scale-up SI clusters: 112G / 224G SerDes, 100G/200G Ethernet
• Cutting-edge memory: GDDR6/7, HBM, DDR5, LPDDR5/6