Drive/traction Inverter

**What to Expect**

Tesla’s traction inverter team is looking for a skilled and motivated performance modeling student to push the power electronics propelling our vehicles to the next level. The team leverages a parametric inverter performance model, and you will develop it, maintain it, and use it to run trade-off studies, facilitate multi-objective optimization, and communicate performance expectations and requirements. It will allow the intern to grow technically and personally while experiencing life at Tesla with projects that are critical to their team’s success. It's an exciting work environment with plenty of engineering resources and bright colleagues to collaborate with.

**What You'll Do**
- Collaborate with mechanical, thermal, PCBA, and firmware engineering teams to identify the limits of traction inverter performance
- Leverage the traction inverter model to produce repeatable and dependable results to drive vehicle architecture initiatives and roadmaps
- Maintain and grow organically the capabilities of the model - software architecture

**What You'll Bring**
- BSc or higher degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Experience with powertrain component and/or power converter modelling in MATLAB/Simulink
- Experience working with, developing, and maintaining custom software source code
- Good understanding of switching waveforms, semiconductor losses and thermal behavior of power components

Additional Preferred Skills
- Knowledge of electric machines, thermal design, and mechanical design
- Knowledge of basic control theory and experience with embedded programming
- Experience with Git/Github.

Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.