Full Description

What To Expect Join Tesla's Attributes Engineering Team as a Vehicle Test Engineer focused on chassis and vehicle dynamics, with potential exposure to other full vehicle testing areas. This role involves managing full vehicle and component-level testing operations, ensuring vehicle readiness for development activities, creating and executing test plans, and contributing to standardized test execution. Collaborate closely with program leads and design teams to drive innovation and meet critical deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

What You'll Do

Oversee specific vehicles from the attributes fleet, ensuring vehicle health, managing reworks, and handling hardware and software troubleshooting Develop and manage test plans with the program attribute lead to ensure completion of development objectives Coordinate vehicle transports, consumables planning, and communication with test facilities and workshops during testing activities Execute standardized full vehicle tests in chassis, vehicle dynamics, and brakes, including objective characterization and subjective evaluation Collaborate with attributes program managers and leads to align vehicle test plans with design team release schedules Set up instrumentation equipment such as accelerometers, damper pots, IMUs, steering and pedal actuators, and wheel force transducers Conduct component-level testing, including operation of test rigs and basic data analysis

What You'll Bring

Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Physics, or equivalent experience Minimum of 3 years of experience in automotive test engineering Proficiency in vehicle instrumentation and data analysis using industry-standard tools Experience with vehicle dynamics post-processing coding environments Familiarity with MoTeC or similar data logging and analysis platforms Experience with MS Project and Jira is preferred

Benefits Compensation and Benefits

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

• Aetna PPO and HSA plans > 2 medical 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 Account) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High Deductible Aetna 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
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions), and Paid Holidays