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Internship, Field Test Engineer, Abuse Test & Engineering (Summer 2024)

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Tesla

Nov 24, 2023

Applications are closed

  • Internship
    Full-time
    Summer Internship
  • Engineering
  • San Francisco

Requirements

  • Pursuing Bachelor’s Degree or advanced degree in Mechanical Engineering degree or equivalent
  • Ideal focus areas include: equipment commissioning, construction
  • Experience working in the field
  • Must be mentally tough, excellent at field work in variable conditions
  • Bonus: experience with programming (Python ideally), electrical communications (CAN), or battery cycling equipment

Responsibilities

  • Build infrastructure, such as improved off-grid electrical power, fire-tolerant arenas and enclosures, water extinguishing and recovery
  • Build test equipment, such as product-scale crusher, replica building with fire extinguishing, battery chargers and power cyclers, electrical and thermal data sensors and acquisition, and continuous video recording
  • Recognize and propose further improvements to test site and equipment
  • Troubleshoot issues with test equipment and sensors, site electrical power or IT, etc
  • Maintain facility, ensure smooth operation when teams visit for tests
  • Communicate with remote teams to schedule trips, receive and prepare test samples, conduct tests jointly, perform post-test inspection and disposal
  • Coordinate daily technician activities

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.

Automotive
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Employees
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Mission & Purpose

Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy through increasingly affordable electric vehicles in addition to renewable energy generation and storage. California-based Tesla is committed to having the best-in-class in safety, performance, and reliability in all Tesla cars. There are currently over 275,000 Model S, Model X and Model 3 vehicles on the road worldwide. To achieve a sustainable energy future, Tesla also created infinitely scalable energy products: Powerwall, Powerpack and Solar Roof. As the world’s only vertically integrated energy company, Tesla continues to innovate, scale and reduce the costs of commercial and grid-scale systems, with the goal of ultimately getting us to 100% renewable energy grids.