Data Engineer, Cell Manufacturing

Tesla is re-thinking how batteries are made from the ground up. We are designing new factories, new equipment, new processes, and new software to rapidly scale battery manufacturing. The primary bottleneck to Tesla's future expansion and the transition to sustainable transport and energy storage is our ability to produce and procure batteries - that is why we are innovating in-house, with our collection of world-class engineers, to redefine the industry. Data, data analytics and analytics automation all play a critical part in this strategy.

As part of the Global Cell Manufacturing Analytics and Systems team, you will drive analytics of critical and complex questions around process integration and overall factory optimization. While the role is based at Giga-Factory Texas, you will support all of Tesla's cell manufacturing factories across North America and Europe. You will develop data, analytics workflows and impact the design of data architecture and software solutions that will be deployed globally. In this role, you will also develop data-driven models and analyses that will help our leadership ramp up and optimize our cell factories as fast as possible and maximize yield, throughput and effectiveness.

Your hands-on analytics work will enable various engineering, operations, and executive customers at Tesla to leverage the vast amounts of data generated from the cell manufacturing process all the way to the global Tesla vehicle fleet, to design and produce safer, lower-cost, and higher-performance cells.

The work environment is intellectually demanding, fast paced and incredibly exciting. You should be ready to push your limits, as you join a highly motivated and capable global team to achieve incredible goals.

• Deep dive into process integration and manufacturing issues to ensure interactions between processes are understood and kept under control
• Build data pipelines using Python, Apache AirFlow, Spark, SQL, ClickHouse and others
• Build intuitive visualizations that quickly answer questions using software and tools such as JMP, Minitab, Grafana, Plotly, Tableau, React JS, and others
• Develop models to simulate cell manufacturing processes to drive improvements and future line design
• Work collaboratively with cross functional global teams
• Design and develop new systems and tools to enable cross-functional teams to consume and understand data faster
• Drive statistical data analysis, interpretation, and presentation of manufacturing data

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of manufacturing analytics experience within a high-volume manufacturing environment
• Substantial programming experience (e.g., Python, MATLAB)
• Proficiency in SQL and Python stack (e.g. pandas, numpy, matplotlib, NumPy, SciPy)
• Strong communication skills to translate engineering questions into data/software requirements
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals
• Data visualization experience (e.g., Tableau, Grafana, Matplotlib, JMP, JavaScript)
• Proven problem solver - demonstrated experience of data driven root cause analysis, strong statistical background is a plus
• Experience with building data pipelines, database fundamentals, and machine learning models
• Experience in DOEs and statistical analysis and presentation of experimental data

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:

• Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
• Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
• Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
• Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
• Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
• Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
• Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
• Tesla Babies program
• Commuter benefits
• Employee discounts and perks program