Data Engineer, Cell Manufacturing Quality

The Cell Manufacturing Quality team is responsible for performing advanced analytics, creating infrastructure and data pipelines, developing predictive models and making data applications that enable cross functional teams to leverage a wealth of manufacturing, equipment and vehicle data both efficiently and effectively. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to enable data-driven decision-making. You will also build tools, software, and user-friendly applications that empower the Quality Systems and Process Engineering teams to streamline quality processes and drive operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Analyze and interpret high volume manufacturing data from various sources and assembly operations to extract useful statistics and insights about the operation
• Support engineering staff and management in investigations of failures, containment activities, continuous improvement initiatives and more, in order to drive meaningful improvements to production quality and output
• 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
• Create and maintain standardized reporting tools for the operation, providing results on the health of the business for various audiences, including senior management
• Maintain existing data visualizations, data pipelines and dashboard enhancement requests
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems to empower operational and exploratory analysis
• Automate analyses and authoring pipelines via SQL, Python, Tableau, and similar
• Drive underlying data systems improvement by working with key cross-functional stakeholders
• 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

• Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business Analytics, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Statistics) or equivalent work experience
• 1+ years of work experience in data engineering and platform engineering
• Extensive experience with SQL, Python, Airflow, Tableau, and Statistical Analysis
• Proven ability to work well under pressure and manage competing demands with tight deadlines
• Drive to introduce predictive models, integer linear programming (ILP) that can be used for operation decision making assistance
• High level of attention to detail in report creation
• Experience in high volume manufacturing is a plus where automated assembly is performed and data collected via Manufacturing Execution Systems
• Understanding of software and database design in order to work closely with a development team to translate business needs into software solutions

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