Drive/Traction Inverter Performance Modeling Engineer

1 Day ago • 4-8 Years • Research & Development • Undisclosed

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Job Description

Tesla's drive unit development team seeks skilled performance modeling engineers to enhance power electronics for its vehicles. Responsibilities include implementing power stage loss and thermal models in MATLAB/Simulink, leveraging the traction inverter model for vehicle architecture initiatives, maintaining and expanding model capabilities, collaborating with engineering teams, and identifying performance limits. The ideal candidate possesses an M.Sc. in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent experience, proficiency in power converter modeling in MATLAB/Simulink, and experience with custom software development. A good understanding of switching waveforms, semiconductor losses, thermal behavior, and Git/Github is essential.

Must have:

M.Sc. in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent
Power converter modeling in MATLAB/Simulink
Custom software development experience
Understanding of switching waveforms and semiconductor losses
Proficiency with Git/Github

Good to have:

Knowledge of electric machines
Thermal design expertise
Mechanical design experience

What to Expect

Tesla’s drive unit development team is looking for skilled and motivated performance modeling engineers to push the power electronics propelling our vehicles to the next level. The team leverages a parametric performance model, and you will develop it, maintain it, and use it to run trade-off studies, facilitate multi-objective optimization, and communicate performance expectations and requirements. It's an exciting work environment with plenty of engineering resources and bright colleagues to collaborate with. As an industry leading company, Tesla offers the opportunity to work on bleeding edge technology in a fast paced, dynamic, and high visibility role.

What You’ll Do

Implement (MATLAB/Simulink) power stage loss and thermal models for traction inverter applications.
Leverage the traction inverter model to produce repeatable and dependable results to drive vehicle architecture initiatives and roadmaps.
Maintain and grow organically the capabilities of the model - software architecture.
Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, PCBA, and firmware engineering teams to identify the limits of traction inverter performance.

What You’ll Bring

M.Sc. in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Experience with power converter modelling in MATLAB/Simulink.
Experience working with, developing, and maintaining custom software source code.
Good understanding of switching waveforms, semiconductor losses and thermal behavior of power components.
Experience with Git/Github.

Additional Preferred Skills