Internship, Mechanical Engineer, Energy Engineering (Spring/Summer 2024)

International Students: If your work authorization is through CPT, please consult your school before applying. You must be able to work 40 hours per week. Many students will be limited to part-time depending on their academic standing.

Internship Program at Tesla

The Internship Recruiting Team is driven by the passion to recognize and develop emerging talent. Our year-round program places the best students in positions where they will grow technically, professionally, and personally through their experience working closely with their Manager, Mentor, and team. We are dedicated to providing an experience that allows the intern to experience life at Tesla by including them in projects that are critical to their team’s success.

Locations

• Palo Alto, CA
• Austin, TX
• Fremont, CA

• The Tesla Energy Industrial Storage Service Engineering team is responsible for diagnosing and resolving product issues and escalations from Field Service teams to drive the best customer experience and fleet availability. In this internship you will identify and help resolve fleet-wide performance, operation, and maintenance challenges across the growing fleet of energy products by creating analytics that provide insights to drive action to maintain and improve the fleet.

Energy | Mechanical Design Engineering

• The Industrial Energy Enclosure Engineering team is a small group of hands-on mechanical engineers. Our charter is to design robust and reliable electronics enclosures to enable the successful deployment and operation of Tesla’s Utility scale storage and Supercharging products. We work in a space crowded with regulatory requirements where competitors and suppliers are often invested in the status quo. Our team’s job is to ignore the status quo, challenge rules where appropriate, and implement fundamentals only engineering to make the absolute best products possible.

Energy | Supercharger, Mechanical Engineering

• The Supercharger mechanical design team is a fun, diverse group of engineers, working to design world class charging hardware. We are responsible for major system architecture decisions, detailed design and simulation, and hardcore mechanical design of all elements of the Supercharger system. We are responsible for the success of the product from the early ideation phase all the way to mass production. The Supercharger engineering team is one of the few teams at the company that works on core Tesla tech, high power distribution, while also working on products that everyday people interact with. We are looking for mission driven, enthusiastic design engineers with a passion for hands on work.

Energy | Industrial Storage Hardware, Mechanical Design Engineering

• The Industrial Storage Hardware Engineering team is a group of mechanical engineers dedicated to designing internal systems on all Tesla industrial energy storage products. Our focus is on developing large-scale energy storage technology that can be deployed to provide electrical grid stability and storage for renewable sources. We are responsible for battery design, high voltage distribution, safety systems, wire harnesses, internal mechanism design, and more. We are a small team with a wide scope that allows us to react quickly and make decisions that have a large impact on our products. We are looking for team members who are eager to learn, are motivated and able to take ownership of projects, and who ask the right questions to progress solutions to difficult problems.

• Pursuing a BS or higher degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or similar

• Remain engaged, proactive, and positive while solving very challenging problems
• Strong engineering fundamentals and intuition, applied to firmware/software-enabled systems

• Experience with developing, managing or maintaining equipment running Linux based applications
• Experience with battery systems and power systems
• Experience using Python or equivalent for data analysis on very large databases
• Knowledge of CAN Bus communication

Energy | Mechanical Design Engineering

• Direct machine shop skills a plus PREFERRED SKILLS
• Basic understanding of material science of components used in mechanical design (metals, insulators, plastics, connectors, gaskets, etc)
• A detail-oriented personality with solid documentation and reporting skills
• Desire to own a lot and work hard - we have small teams and fast timelines
• Demonstrated ability or ability to learn to create products: CAD design to FEA to hand on prototyping
• Experience with student Formula Vehicle, Solar Car, Hyperloop etc. a plus
• Strong Engineering fundamentals in statics, dynamics, heat transfer, fluids, and electronics

• Knowledge of GD&T, finite element analysis and design for reliability concepts
• Experience with CATIA V5 or V6

Energy | Supercharger, Mechanical Engineering

• Prior experience with taking leading roles in school or university extracurricular design projects /competitions such as FSAE, ASC/WSC, Hyperloop is a plus. NICE TO HAVE
• Basic understanding of material science of components used in mechanical design (metals, insulators, plastics, connectors, gaskets, etc).
• Hands on experience – comfortable in a laboratory environment
• Proficiency using 3D mechanical design and analysis tools. CAD experience is a must.

• Working knowledge of Matlab or Python.
• Knowledge of GD&T, finite element analysis and design for reliability concepts.
• Experience with CATIA V5 or V6

Energy | Industrial Storage Hardware, Mechanical Design Engineering

• Vibration analysis background
• Experience and/or coursework focused on employing the fundamentals of thermodynamics and heat transfer to mechanical design projects
• Working knowledge of Matlab or Python.
• Hands on experience (direct machine shop experience, personal projects, or student teams)
• Solid mechanics coursework and/or experience
• GD&T background
• CAD experience
• Basic understanding of material science of components used in mechanical design (metals, insulators, plastics, connectors, gaskets, etc.)
• Mechanical EFA modelling