Controls Engineer, Engineering Development Program Cohort (Spring 2025)
What to Expect
What You'll Do
What You'll Bring
Compensation and Benefits
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.
Tesla is developing and launching our new grad Engineering Development Program, with an emphasis on Controls Engineering. Trainees will join senior engineers at Gigafactory Texas for orientation, enroll in a 12-week instructor led class designed in collaboration with our local college partner, and complete a certification through commissioning, integration and sustaining existing automated controls and robotics systems over ~6 months. Similarly, trainees will learn how to lead design and development of automation equipment and assembly lines for new products with continuous improvement projects.
Upon completion of the program, trainees will graduate with a Tesla certificate and receive support for full-time career placement.
What You'll Do
Program graduates will be equipped with:
- Expertise in crafting and sustaining a controls engineering framework to meet manufacturing and development needs
- Proficiency in evolving CCS and DCS strategies for enhanced site performance
- Goal-setting acumen within the controls support domain, driven by customer feedback and aligned with Tesla’s development goals
- Skills in conceptualizing equipment designs that balance product specs, process controls, cost, complexity, and lead-time limits
- Capability to engineer compliant industrial electrical control panels and produce comprehensive system schematics
- Advanced programming skills for PLC logic that is structured, maintainable, and interacts with subsystems and third-party equipment
- Proficiency in implementing ANSI/RIA15.06/OSHA compliant safety systems for safeguarding high-volume manufacturing equipment
- Ability to design user-centric HMI screens for complex machinery that simplify troubleshooting
- Experience with electrical cabinet construction, field wiring, and plumbing for pneumatic and fluid systems
- Skills to integrate automated processes into production and train Maintenance and Production Teams, Knowledge to interface with plant-wide MES to monitor product quality and process variables
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical, Mechatronics, Computer Science, or equivalent experience (prior to program launch)
- Coursework in analog and digital circuits, control systems, logic, and programming
- Exposure to programming microcontrollers
- Proficiency with CAD (AutoCAD, CATIA, SolidWorks)
- Able to work under pressure while managing competing demands and tight deadlines
- Exemplary verbal and written communication skills, well organized with meticulous attention to detail
- Strong propensity to build, assemble, fix and program things is preferred, use of common power and hand tools is preferred
- Programming experience in C++, Python, SQL or similar language is preferred
- Experience with industrial electrical panel design, PLC programming (Allen-Bradley, Siemens, Beckhoff or similar), HMI/SCADA programming (Allen-Bradley, Ignition or similar), industrial robots (Fanuc, Kuka or similar) and Servo motors and controllers (Kinetix or similar) is preferred
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
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.