Vision Systems Engineer, Cell Engineering

What You'll Do

• Work as key link between cross functional teams to develop requirements and provide solutions for inline vision inspection systems
• Drive ramp of exciting new products by characterizing baseline vision performance and capability and improve performance as measured by product quality and tool availability
• Ensure manufacturing lines meet uptime, availability, and reliability metrics – OEE, cycle time and quality, have the sense of urgency on resolution of production issues
• Develop best practices to improve vision system reliability
• Vision software and algorithm development and data analysis using programming languages such as C++, C#, Python or HALCON
• Commissioning and calibrating vision systems and MES system integration
• Organize cross-functional design reviews and highlight body of work
• Collaborate with downstream and upstream process teams on vision system validation, data correlation and analysis
• Build request for quotation and manage vendor proposals
• Provide direction and mentorship to third party vendors and Tesla Internal machine building teams

What You'll Bring

• Degree in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience with machine vision systems
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals and ability to apply them towards manufacturing process development
• Knowledge in selection of cameras, lenses, optics, lighting, and other hardware for image capture and processing
• Experience of image processing (e.g., image enhancement, thresholding, morphology, feature extraction, classification)
• Strong analytical, mathematical, and statistical background and ability to understand and explain theory behind vision system algorithms
• Experience in high volume manufacturing is highly desired
• Experience with linescan cameras is highly desired
• Ability to travel

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Medical plans
• Fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Dental and vision plans
• HSA Contribution
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Sick and Vacation time
• Commuter benefits
• Tesla Babies program
• Employee discounts and perks program