What to Expect

Tesla’s Mobile Robotics team designs and builds humanoid bi-pedal robots (Tesla Bot) to automate repetitive tasks and wheeled robots for manufacturing and autonomous logistics. The team joins mechanical, electrical, controls, software, and manufacturing engineering disciplines in a highly collaborative team. 

What You’ll Do

• Robot modelling architecture
• Conceptual design of biped robots
• Accurate modeling of kinematic chains
• Abstraction and conversion of joint mechanisms into rigid body trees
• Physics/model representations of joints, limbs
• Design and support of new mechanism
• Measurement and matching of model and simulation
• Complex controls simplification for fast analysis

What You’ll Bring

• BS in Electrical
  Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, or equivalent of
  experience and evidence of exceptional abilities.
• 3+ years’
  experience with controls system development, modeling, and implementation.
• Excellent background
  in linear systems analysis, stability, and controller design.
• Creating dynamic
  models of electrical, mechanical, and thermal systems.  
• Experience,
  understanding, and intuition for the physics of basic electric propulsion,
  motion control systems, and heat transfer. 
• Knowledge in control systems including, spring
  loaded inverted pendulum, Zero Momentum Control, Model Predictive Control, Motor
  controls, etc.
• Modeling knowledge in inverse kinematics,
  inverse/forward dynamics, impedance control, torque control, etc.
• Basic design of electric motors & power
  electronics & control circuits.
• Familiar with gear reduction mechanisms
  including: Planetary, Belt drives, Harmonics Drives, Magnetic Gears, etc.
• Strong mechanical skills, including design,
  manufacturing limits, mechanical linkages, design for manufacturing
• Strong programming skills in Matlab/Simulink,
  Python, C++, SQL, etc.
• Strong skills in CAD (CATIA, NX, Inventor,
  Solid Works, etc.)