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# Data Analytics Engineer Scientist, Thermal, Chassis

- **Company:** Tesla Motors
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $216,000.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Airflow, Systems Engineering, Big Data, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Visualization, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Query Optimization, SQL Databases, Data Processing, Matplotlib, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/86853601/1

## About the Role

* Physics-based background - candidates with training in mechanical engineering, physics, theoretical mechanics, or related physical sciences are especially well suited for characterizing and modeling engineering systems in this role.
 * Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Statistics or related field or equivalent experience
 * Prior internship/work experience in data analytics or related field
 * Proven proficiency in SQL and Python for writing efficient queries, data manipulation, and analysis
 * Working knowledge of data visualization techniques and tools using Matplotlib, Seaborn, etc.
 * Experience working with time-series sensors data to perform robust engineering analyses
 * Good organizational skills and an ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously to meet deadline
 * Demonstrated ability to take on projects with a sense of ownership and entrepreneurial mindset

## Description

We're looking for a key player who can help drive data analytics and work cross-functionally to uncover opportunities in product improvements. The candidate should have experience working with large datasets, and using data to help design critical metrics, characterize engineering systems, optimize product performance, and build useful data pipelines, visualizations, and dashboards.
What You'll Do

 * Analyze vehicle data and extract useful statistics/insights that drive actionable recommendations to improve product performance/quality and customer experience
 * Write efficient SQL/Python code and complex queries across extensive data set
 * Build effective models to fuel analytical frameworks that drive material product improvements in hardware optimization, controls, and vehicle diagnostics
 * Work effectively with engineers and conduct end-to-end analyses, from data requirement gathering, to data processing and modeling
 * Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets and depict the story via dashboards and reports
 * Automate analyses and author pipelines using SQL, Python, and Airflow based ETL framework


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