Technical Project Manager, Battery Electronics

$100,000 - $186,000/Yr

Tesla - Palo Alto, CA

Full-time - Senior

Palo Alto, CA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Technical Project Manager for Battery Electronics at Tesla is responsible for leading the design and development of Battery Management Systems (BMS) PCBAs, which are essential for the safety and performance of Tesla's automotive and energy products. This role involves managing the entire program lifecycle from concept to launch, collaborating with various technical teams, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders. The position requires a passion for engineering and innovation in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on optimizing battery performance and managing charge control.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end program of BMS PCBAs, overseeing their progression from concept to development and successful launch.
• Collaborate with key technical leaders, ensuring each team adopts a methodical approach in their design and project execution.
• Efficiently oversee and communicate scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, and launch changes, ensuring smooth coordination and continuous communication with leadership, stakeholders, and team members.
• Work with agility in a fast-paced environment, managing conflicting priorities and meeting tight launch schedules.
• Ensure all designs have robust validation and execution plans to achieve quality standards and reduce project risks.
• Drive the initial NPI launch of products in both domestic and overseas locations.
• Serve as the primary interface between the design team and the supply chain and suppliers, ensuring optimal supply chain management and ramp-up plans for all designs, including both prototype and production representative PCBAs.
• Lead comprehensive product improvement projects, informed by fleet analysis of failures, production yield, and cost reduction initiatives outlined by executive management.
• Take a significant leadership role in the FMEA process for electronics, systems, and integration design areas.
• Create and optimize advanced product development and validation processes, making them easily implementable for the team while ensuring maximum value for the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent experience; Mechatronics, Mechanical, System, Computer or Electrical Engineering is preferred.
• Experience in technical project management in hardware or software.
• Demonstrated application of project and program management fundamentals to complex engineering problems.
• Detail-oriented with strong record-keeping and organizational skills.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and tasks in parallel.
• Demonstrated experience creating, maintaining, and communicating schedules.
• Knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals and ability to understand sophisticated electronics system design a plus.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, production, and supply chain personnel.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills with the ability to understand complex problems and summarize in a simple way to a wide audience.
• Must be proficient user in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word; Experienced with JIRA, Confluence, and Enovia considered a plus.

Nice-to-haves

• Mechanical knowledge
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence

Benefits

• Commuter assistance
• Health savings account
• AD&D insurance
• Paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Flextime
• Employee assistance program
• 401(k) matching
• Employee discount
• Pet insurance