Team Lead - Power Electronics (m/f/d)

At Tesla Engineering Germany GmbH in Freiburg, we’re building the future of sustainable energy by developing innovative power electronics for energy storage and vehicle charging systems. Join our team to collaborate across different engineering areas, solve meaningful challenges creatively and transfer concepts from initial design, through prototyping and testing into real-world solutions.

This is an opportunity to own key projects, use modern tools, and work in state-of-the-art facilities to create technologies that shape how energy systems evolve. You get to work on advancing power electronics used for Tesla products globally, thereby directly contributing to the acceleration of the world's transition to sustainable energy.

- First point of contact for technical and organizational matters within the team, fostering collaboration and clarity
- Identify constraints in daily workflows, resolve challenges proactively, and escalate strategically when needed
- Excel at motivating teams and providing guidance during complex or high-pressure projects
- Design and build hardware of power electronics converters for use in automotive and energy storage applications
- Start to finish ownership of hardware – from specification to design, prototype, reliability validation and high-volume manufacturing
- Collaborate with mechanical, PCB layout, and firmware engineering teams
- Architecture and modeling of new power converter topologies that achieve better performance

- PhD or MS in Electrical Engineering, or the equivalent in experience and evidence of exceptional ability
- 4 or more years of relevant hands-on hardware experience in power converter (AC/DC, DC/DC & DC/AC) design while managing a team of Electrical Engineers
- Experience with high voltage power semiconductor selection (Si/SiC/GaN MOSFET’s, Diodes), gate drive and protection circuit design
- Strong comprehension of switching waveforms, Semi-conductor losses and experience with loss modeling
- Solid proficiency of the theory and application of magnetics (inductors, transformers) and capacitors (Electrolytic, film and Ceramic) used for power conversion
- Good experience with design analog/digital circuits, including circuit simulation tools, and micro-processors
- Experience in supervision of PCB layout for minimal stray inductance and capacitance, placement strategies for better manufacturability, power/signal plane definition and EMC