Sr. Quality Data Systems Engineer, Cell Manufacturing Global Quality

Battery Cells are the common denominator for every Tesla product. Our product requirements demand ground-up cell architectures with state-of-the-art performance, manufactured at volumes that are orders of magnitude higher than the products they power. Our environment is fast-paced and incredibly exciting. Tesla moves quickly, so being passionate and self-motivated to push your limits is critical. Our team works alongside engineering groups across various disciplines, requiring strong communication skills and a team-first mentality. You will work alongside seasoned industry experts, high aptitude recent graduates, and people from every stage in between.
We are seeking a highly motivated Quality Data Systems Engineer to help drive improvements to our data tools and systems. Cell manufacturing requires orders of magnitude better quality than traditional manufacturing, the key to sustained success and scalability is a robust quality system. You will leverage your experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems to build data pipelines and infrastructure, perform advanced analytics, develop predictive models and data applications that enable cross functional teams to leverage a wealth of manufacturing, equipment, and controls data both efficiently and effectively. Candidate will have experience working with large data sets, finding best ways to engineer the data to help create critical KPI metrics, build innovative visualizations and dashboards while keeping in mind what improvements can be driven in underlying data systems. In this role, you will work within the Global Quality team providing support to Production, Engineering, and Quality Operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze manufacturing, equipment, and quality data and extract useful statistics and insights about failures to drive meaningful improvements to production quality and customer experience
• Work effectively with engineers and conduct end-to-end analyses, from data requirement gathering to data processing and modeling
• Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques, and provide ongoing reports
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets and depict the story via dashboards and reports
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems to empower operational and exploratory analysis
• Maintain existing data visualizations data pipelines, and dashboard enhancement requests
• Drive underlying data systems improvement by working with key cross-functional stakeholders
• Perform data quality validations to ensure data creation is as per the business needs and expectations
• Automate analyses and authoring pipelines via SQL, Python, Tableau, and similar
• Work closely with Controls, Process, and Quality Engineers to develop and improve data collection activities and reporting tools within a high-volume manufacturing environment

Requirements

• Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering) or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of work experience in data engineering and platform engineering
• Advanced Python scripting
• Extensive experience creating APIs
• Strong analytical skills with ability to combine and find patterns across multiple datasets
• Data mining and database (e.g. MySQL) experience
• Data visualization experience (Tableau)

Compensation and Benefits
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
• 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