(Senior) Power Electronics Engineer, Medium Voltage

(Senior) Power Electronics Engineer, Medium Voltage

Tesla

Freiburg, Germany

This is an opportunity to own key projects, use modern tools, and work in state-of-the-art facilities to create technologies that shape how energy systems evolve. You get to work on advancing power electronics used for Tesla products globally, thereby directly contributing to the acceleration of the world's transition to sustainable energy.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build hardware of power electronics converters for use in medium voltage energy applications;
• Start to finish ownership of hardware – from specification to design, prototype, reliability validation and high-volume manufacturing;
• Collaborate with mechanical, material, and manufacturing teams to successfully design, validate and manufacture power converters for medium voltage applications;
• Architecture and modeling of new power converter topologies that achieve better performance;
• Perform sustaining design activities to improve product quality, cost and/or manufacturability of existing power electronics products.

What You’ll Bring

• BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, or the equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability;
• Relevant hands-on hardware experience in medium voltage converter design and strong understanding of power electronics topologies (Multilevel, Stacked Cell & MMC);
• Experience with high voltage power semiconductor selection, gate drive and protection circuit design;
• Experience with isolation concepts and technics as well as their fault mechanisms;
• Strong knowledge of switching waveforms, semiconductor loss modeling, magnetics, capacitors, and analog/digital circuit design for power conversion;
• Proficiency in schematic capture, power converter simulation tools, and PCB layout optimization for manufacturability, EMC, and minimal parasitics optimization;
• Skilled in working with basic EE tools like Oscilloscopes, Network analyzers, Signal Generators, etc.