Failure Analysis Engineer - Electronics Debug

Job Description

The Failure Analysis Team’s mission is to determine root cause and contributing factors to improve the experience of Tesla’s products by reducing field issues, in collaboration with large cross-sections of other engineering teams. Engineers and Technicians on the team are responsible for a wide variety of vehicle and energy product systems for existing models and models in development. This extremely high visibility individual contributor role requires extensive hands-on work focused on failure analysis and root cause activities.  

We are seeking a skilled electrical engineer who will be responsible for all aspects of identifying and characterizing failures on our low voltage electronics. The successful candidate would work directly with the original design engineers and other failure analysis engineers to complete failure analysis and propose countermeasures. This role will primarily focus on low voltage electrical systems including infotainment, vehicle controllers, autopilot electronics, and steering actuators. 

A successful candidate will need to become familiar with the detailed behaviors and system level interactions of these components. They will work with all manners of electrical test equipment to recreate and identify failures observed in engineering, production, and field environments. They will work cross functionally with other engineers and management to report root cause, investigation status and other relevant information.  

As an industry leading company, Tesla offers the opportunity to work on industry leading products and bleeding edge technology in a fast paced, dynamic and high visibility role. 

Job Responsibilities

• Debug complex analog and digital electrical systems 
• Drive root cause analysis from issue identification to countermeasure implementation 
• Use analytical tools and techniques including Functional Testing, Electrical Debug, X-Ray, Thermography and others 
• Design experiments to test theories and execute yourself or with help of technicians 
• Support design reviews and DFMEAs with prior experience 
• Create required tools, including test scripts, test PCBAs and others as required 

Job Requirements

• Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent experience 
• Experience with common failure analysis techniques and methods 
• 1+ Year of industry experience or demonstrable experience designing and debugging complex electrical circuits 
• Experience working with tools such as Power Supplies, Oscilloscopes, Curve Tracer, Function Generator, etc. 
• Proficient at soldering and rework on complex boards and SMT components 
• Extremely proficient at reading schematics and debugging analog and digital circuitry, common digital communication protocols (I2C, CAN, etc.) 
• Experience with electromechanical systems, high voltage power electronics