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# Manufacturing Engineer, Battery Interconnects, Optimus

- **Company:** Tesla Motors
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Decision Support Systems, Failure Mode Effects Analysis
- **Published:** October 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88727989/1

## About the Role

* 3+ years of engineering experience
 * Demonstrated ownership of high-volume manufacturing processes

 * Hands-on experience deploying and sustaining electrical interconnect processes at volume (laser welding, ultrasonic welding, ultrasonic wire bonding, soldering), including product interfaces, materials, process windows, and automation equipment

 * Experience writing equipment specifications, running design reviews, and accepting automation that must meet process capability, quality, and cycle time requirements

 * Proven root-cause and process-optimization skill: yield loss, cycle time, and production issues closed with designed experiments, capability data, and line-side problem solving

 * Proficiency in Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T) and experimental design

 * Degree in Engineering, or equivalent experience

## Description

Tesla is looking to hire a Manufacturing Engineer to own factory deployment and production ramp of high-voltage battery electrical interconnect processes for Optimus. You'll work at the intersection of product, process, and automation, industrializing cutting-edge work from Battery Interconnects development, driving equipment design and validation, and delivering yield, quality, and cycle time performance through launch and volume ramp. This role requires domestic and international travel as needed.
What You'll Do

 * Collaborate closely with the process development team to deploy and scale highly automated electrical interconnect processes such as laser welding, ultrasonic welding, ultrasonic wire bonding, soldering, and related interconnect methods from prototype to stable and fully validated

 * Guide cross-functional down-selection of equipment, tooling, and process parameters with Development, Equipment, Quality, and Production counterparts

 * Partner with product design to translate design constraints into realistic process requirements and absorb product changes without sacrificing yield or cycle time

 * Drive design specifications, design reviews, and buy-off criteria for automation equipment that performs electrical interconnection

 * Leverage data-driven decision making to root-cause production issues and drive the optimal outcome

 * Optimize deployed processes to hit yield, quality, and cycle time targets; own process capability and control through ramp

 * Build and maintain the factory process knowledge base: standards, work instructions, PFMEA/control plans, and lessons learned from launch and production