Robotics Mechanical Design Engineer, Motors

What To Expect This position will support the development of the high-performance Tesla motors. You will support design and manufacturing activities to industrialize and scale Tesla motors into high volume production. You will join a team of mechanical, electrical, and electromagnetic engineering disciplines in a highly collaborative environment.

What You'll Do- Mechanical design and industrialization of stators for integration into Tesla’s powertrains

• Collaboration with electromagnetic motor design engineers and actuator engineers to develop bespoke motors perfectly suited for integration
• Continuous improvement of existing designs to reduce cost, improve performance and reliability
• Prototyping, testing and troubleshooting of electric motors
• Basic fabrication, machining, wiring, general electronics, debugging, and testing
• Collaboration with supply chain, vendors, and manufacturing engineers
• Pilot production assembly, offering hands on support, driving process improvement, ensuring quality and manufacturing engineering support What You'll Bring- Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field, or equivalent experience
• 1+ years experience in mechanical engineering in a product design and manufacturing environment
• Experience with design and manufacturing of motors for actuators used in motion control applications
• Experience prototyping stators, rotors, and geared actuators. In particular, understanding of stator manufacturing methods and processes
• Experience with assembly and quality control processes and systems
• Hands-on experience in a machine shop environment. Skill with hand tools, shop and metrology equipment. Experience operating mill/lathe is desirable
• Knowledge and experience with engineering drawings, GD&T, tolerance stacks and FEA. Skill with 3DX (Catia), Solidworks or similar
• Experience with project management of small teams of engineers and technicians delivering high intensity, fast-paced projects
• Familiarity with various electric motor, electric drive, and motion control technologies , Tesla