Associate/Senior/Staff Drive/Traction Inverter (Powertrain) Performance Modeling Engineer

1 Week ago • 4-8 Years • Research & Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Tesla's drive unit development team seeks skilled performance modeling engineers to advance power electronics in electric vehicles. The role involves developing, maintaining, and utilizing a parametric performance model in MATLAB/Simulink for trade-off studies, multi-objective optimization, and communication of performance expectations. Collaboration with mechanical, thermal, PCBA, and firmware engineering teams is crucial to define traction inverter performance limits. Responsibilities include implementing power stage loss and thermal models, ensuring repeatable results for vehicle architecture initiatives, and enhancing model capabilities. The position offers exposure to cutting-edge technology in a fast-paced environment.
Must have:
  • M.Sc. in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or equivalent
  • Power converter modeling in MATLAB/Simulink
  • Experience with custom software development and maintenance
  • Understanding of switching waveforms, semiconductor losses, and thermal behavior
  • Experience with Git/Github
Good to have:
  • Knowledge of electric machines, thermal design, and mechanical design

Job Details

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​

  • Knowledge of electric machines, thermal design, and mechanical design.

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