(Senior) Power Electronics Engineer (m/f/d) (Automobil-Fachwirt/in)

What to Expect:
As a Power Electronics Controls Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in developing advanced control algorithms for power converters used in energy storage and automotive products. You will be responsible for designing, testing, and validating control solutions for AC/DC and DC/DC power conversion systems, collaborating closely with hardware, firmware, and deployment teams. This is an opportunity to work at the forefront of power electronics technology, contributing to the global transition to sustainable energy solutions.

What You’ll Do:
• Design, implement, and validate control algorithms for power electronics systems, ensuring high performance and efficiency across a range of energy and automotive products.
• Develop embedded software and firmware, primarily in C, for real-time control applications in AC/DC and DC/DC power converters.
• Model and simulate power converter dynamics to optimize control strategies using tools like MATLAB/Simulink and hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) systems.
• Perform hands-on testing, validation, and troubleshooting of control algorithms on hardware platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system requirements, select microcontrollers, and integrate control algorithms into firmware frameworks.
• Support manufacturing by developing test firmware and providing technical support for product assembly at both internal and external facilities.
• Assist product deployment teams by tracking fleet performance, diagnosing behavioral issues, and providing firmware updates to enhance product features and reliability.

What You’ll Bring:
• Bachelor’s or higher degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with a strong foundation in control theory and power electronics.
• At least 2 years of experience in embedded systems development with real-time control applications, particularly in power electronics.
• Proficiency in C programming and experience with microcontroller peripherals (ADC, DAC, PWM) and communication protocols (SPI, I2C, CAN).
• Strong knowledge of dynamic modeling and simulation for control system design.
• Hands-on experience with hardware testing, troubleshooting, and validation.
• Familiarity wi

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.

Privacy is a top priority for Tesla. We build it into our products and view it as an essential part of our business. To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Tesla Talent Privacy Notice.

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What to Expect:
As a driven Senior Embedded Software/Firmware Engineer in the Tesla Energy Products team, you will develop the next generation of cutting edge, world-class power converters for energy storage and vehicle charging. Your areas of involvement range from architecting, implementing, and validating firmware to also collaborate with production and driving fleet improvements. You will work closely with the Hardware, Controls and Software teams to deliver production grade safety critical firmware for AC/DC and DC/DC power converters. You display enthusiasm for owning the product and delivering top quality firmware. This is an opportunity to continually push the envelope on power conversion technology, which get deployed in Tesla products all over the world to serve our mission of accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

What You’ll Do:
• • Write high-quality C code for real-time embedded systems
• Firmware development and debugging, code/performance optimization, create and execute board level test plans to expose weakness or faults in hardware and firmware
• Translate controls algorithms into software implementation and integrate them into firmware and validation frameworks
• Deliver and manage test firmware to support manufacturing of product assemblies across in-house and external production facilities
• Hands-on hardware bring-up and qualification of power converters, and lab work as needed for development/debug activities through the entire product lifecycle
• Work with product deployment teams to track fleet performance, assess behavioral issues and help drive firmware improvements to resolve anomalies and deliver new product features

What You’ll Bring:
• BS or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or proof of exceptional skills in related fields, with practical engineering experience
• • Capable of delivering top quality C code in a real-time embedded environment
• Expert software fundamentals including algorithm development, data structures, code modularity, and maintainability
• Strong electrical fundamentals with the ability to read hardware schematics and work with the hardware team to deliver production worthy hardware/software co-designed architecture
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: Python, Simulink, Rust
• Experience with typical microcontroller peripherals such as ADC, DAC, PWM, Timers etc. and communication protocols such as SPI, I2C, CAN, UART etc.
• Familiarity with unit testing, software in the loop, or hardware in the loop methodologies is desirable

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.

Privacy is a top priority for Tesla. We build it into our products and view it as an essential part of our business. To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Tesla Talent Privacy Notice.

Apply at: https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/237433?source=BA

What to Expect:
Tesla’s Power Electronics group is looking for a skilled and motivated electrical engineer to design and develop Power Electronics converter hardware intended to be used in Tesla energy products.

What You’ll Do:
• • Design and build hardware of power electronics converters for use in energy applications
• Start to finish ownership of hardware – from specification to design, prototype, reliability validation and high-volume manufacturing
• Collaborate with mechanical, PCB layout, and firmware engineering teams to successfully to design, validate and manufacture power converters
• Architecture and modeling of new power converter topologies that achieve better performance
• Perform sustaining design activities to improve product quality, cost and/or manufacturability of existing power electronics products

What You’ll Bring:
• • BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, or the equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
• Relevant hands-on hardware experience in power converter design and strong understanding of power electronics topologies (AC/DC, DC/DC & DC/AC)
• Experience with high voltage power semiconductor selection (Si/SiC/GaN MOSFET’s, Diodes), gate drive and protection circuit design
• Strong knowledge of switching waveforms, semiconductor loss modeling, magnetics, capacitors, and analog/digital circuit design for power conversion
• Proficiency in schematic capture, power converter simulation tools, and PCB layout optimization for manufacturability, EMC, and minimal parasitics optimization.
• Skilled in working with basic EE tools like Oscilloscopes, Network analyzers, Signal Generators, etc.)

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.

Privacy is a top priority for Tesla. We build it into our products and view it as an essential part of our business. To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Tesla Talent Privacy Notice.

Apply at: https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/237435?source=BA

What to Expect:
Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. We continuously develop revolutionary strategies and products within the shortest time and successfully launch them on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency
Tesla Freiburg forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this is our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we consistently achieve our goals. We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.
Tesla is currently seeking an IT infrastructure Engineer to join our team in Freiburg, Germany, and specialize in network and IT manufacturing engineering in a global enterprise environment. This role will provide network and IT manufacturing engineering, implementation, analytical, and operational support, primarily at manufacturing facilities. The engineer will ensure compliance to established system architecture, regulations and security policies, follow standards and best practices, and author and maintain support documentation.

What You’ll Do:
• Work closely with staff network engineers & manufacturing controls engineers on design and initiatives
• Function as a tier-2 escalation point. Gather requirements, analyze and propose solutions to networking needs
• Provision, implement, test, validate and maintain networking services per solution design
• Monitor, analyze and report network services metrics and document network knowledge base and operational runbooks
• Must be able to work occasional weekends, after hours, and holidays, participate in on-call rotation and able to travel when required
• Primary responsibility is to ensure minimal IT downtime for manufacturing and interact with multiple teams to plan and manage equipment installation and support
• Represent IT with pride, support, enthusiasm and kindness and Immediately respond to line down situations, to remediate any IT related issues
• Work with various teams (controls engineers, production associates, application teams) to troubleshoot issues
• Perform root cause analysis, document findings, and suggest changes to prevent future outages
• Install, support, patch, upgrade, replace, and remediate all IT hardware along manufacturing lines
• Troubleshoot hardware, operating system and software issues and troubleshoot network issues from the client up to the switch and IDF
• Improve the security posture of manufacturing by patching, updating, securing vulnerable hardware and software
• Interface with various manufacturing groups to understand issues and interpret how to solve long term needs within the framework of IT Manufacturing standards

What You’ll Bring:
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience within a desktop support or system admin role
• Experience troubleshooting hardware issues, replacing hardware on Windows machines and imaging hardware devices and updating firmware
• Experience troubleshooting thermal label printers, barcode scanners, hand-held radios, digital signage and basic client-side network (DHCP, DNS, Static IP) problems
• Must be available for swing shift, weekends, and on-call support and very good written and spoken German and English skills and able to work under pressure in the presence of stakeholders
• Multi-tasking ability to manage multiple projects at the same time
• Extensive experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF), TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, QOS, VLAN, VRRP, L

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.

Privacy is a top priority for Tesla. We build it into our products and view it as an essential part of our business. To understand more about the data we collect and process as part of your application, please view our Tesla Talent Privacy Notice.

Apply at: https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/job/236164?source=BA