Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable energy. The Chassis Design Engineering team plays a critical part in that mission, helping to deliver a safe, efficient, comfortable, and enjoyable driving experience, while also focusing on the sustainability and value of Tesla’s products.

THE TEAM

The Chassis Design Engineering team is comprised of engineers from many backgrounds and experience levels. You’ll work alongside experts with many years of experience, high aptitude recent graduates, and people from every stage in between. Collaboration, learning, and growth are core to the team’s success. We look for anyone with demonstrated exceptional ability to solve problems in both individual and team settings.

The team works in small, dedicated groups to manage tires, wheels, hubs, halfshafts, steering, suspension, subframes, brakes, pedals/controls, and air suspension and damping systems on all of Tesla’s passenger car and heavy vehicle programs. A Mechanical Design Engineer on the team is responsible for bringing parts or systems from concept to production and beyond with support from other engineering teams at Tesla.

The Role

A Data Analyst on the team should be able to understand the basic physics behind the main chassis components (air suspension, steering, hydraulic braking systems, electric parking brakes, wheel alignment, valves, pumps…) in order to identify issues and understand their root causes with minimal guidance.

You will utilize your programming expertise to identify patterns from the fleet as well as root cause field issues, and to correlate fleet performance with both manufacturing data and driver behavior data. Your analysis will be used both to help develop new engineering test specifications that reflect field behaviors, and to develop, validate, and implement new vehicle self-tests for both the factory and the fleet. As an example, you could develop an algorithm which performs vehicle self-tests to detect steering wheel misalignment.

Most of your time will be dedicated to hands-on data analysis for the Chassis and Thermal engineering teams, while the rest of your time will be spent building data pipelines, tools, and applications to automate those analyses. This is a cross-functional position in which you will work with design, firmware, reliability, quality, and process teams.