Senior Engineer – Multiphysics CAE/CFD - Tesla

Location: Fremont, California, US

As a Senior Engineer with our CAE team, you will play a critical role in the development of the next generation Tesla products. In this role you will be responsible for analyzing and optimizing the performance of revolutionary vehicle designs.You will be an innovative and skilled problem solver – using all analytical tools available to you. Where these tools are insufficient or do not exist, you will develop novel methodologies to enable fast and accurate solutions.You will be brilliant both technically as an individual, and as an active member in a diverse and challenging cross-functional team environment.

Responsibilities

• Providing CAE and CFD support through build of state of art FE and CFD models to the finest details.
• Supporting design progression and evolution with multi-disciplinary engineering teams based on your analyses.
• Drive manufacturing centric vehicle designs with CAE and CFD, while balancing all applicable requirements with state of the art design and innovative manufacturing methodologies.
• Perform advanced CAE and CFD simulations to evaluate and enhance sub-systems and full vehicle simulations of specific design attributes and manufacturing processes. 
• Develop and apply advanced methodologies with smart analysis techniques to drive innovation into Tesla products.
• High skills level in multidisciplinary domains of single and multi-phase CFD, Thermal, Coupled structural and Thermal, water-management, electro-chemical coat depositions and electromagnetics CAE.
• Develop and support subsystem level & full vehicle correlations in line with standard protocols and best practices.
• Perform post-test reviews and corroborate the CAE and CFD predictions to test results.
• Develop highly predictive models of materials and processes to enable good correlations with physical tests.
• Conduct optimization studies by utilizing optimization tools, including DOE/ DFSS techniques on components, assemblies, or vehicle designs to meet performance requirements with the constraints of mass and cost.
• Perform analyses for feasibility of manufacturing, assembly and service processes.
• Provide input in the creation of component specification, component DFMEA, and other technical design documents where analysis plays a pivotal role.
• Produce concise management summaries and report-outs that meet the needs of management system functions.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering required, Master’s Degree or PhD, in Mechanical Engineering (preferred).
• Deep knowledge of Finite Element Analysis, Finite Volume Method, Smooth Particles Hydrodynamics, CFD, Applied Solid Mechanics, Material science and Computational Numerical Methods within a product development environment in a transportation industry.
• Minimum 5+ years of demonstrated successful experience with at least two relevant product lines.
• Excellent applied experience in ANSYS-FLUENT, STAR CCM+, required.
• Applied experience in ANSA or HYPERWORKS, preferred.
• Additional experience in LS-DYNA, NASTRAN, TOSCA, MODEFRONTIER and ABAQUS beneficial.
• Demonstrated experience in simulating steady state and transient single and multi-phase fluid flows on sub-systems and full vehicle models.
• Preferred experience in stand-alone or coupled analysis of electronic components for structure, fluid mechanics, electro-magnetism, and thermal.
• Preferred experience in the analysis of coupled fluid-structure problems, electro-chemical coat deposition, fluid flow through vehicle bodies, large ovens heat and bake simulations.
• Preferred knowledge of optimization tools and techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently on pioneering and challenging problems.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver analysis on difficult projects with tight timing constraints.
• Demonstrated ability to deconstruct complex test scenarios with good logic and analytics and root-causing correlation problems.
• Demonstrated ability in iterative and collaborative automotive-similar engineering environments.