Climate Controls Calibration Engineer Intern
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Job Description
About The Team:
Tesla develops all algorithms for the Climate Control System in-house. The Climate Controls Calibration Engineer will play a key role in ensuring these algorithms deliver a consistently excellent user experience across all environments and vehicle variants. You will play a critical role to our goal of moving towards a “touchless” HVAC user experience where the vehicle always does the right thing to keep occupants comfortable. You will use first principles understanding of Climate Control Systems, human thermal comfort theory to identify gaps in our algorithms. You will also develop and calibrate solutions to close these gaps. Tracking customer feedback through various channels, reproducing issues, root-causing them, and developing and testing robust solutions will be a regular task. In addition, you will also play a crucial role in calibrating and updating the climate control algorithms for all the new vehicles we regularly bring to markets. You will get to work on of the most vertically integrated Climate Control System in the industry, with algorithms ranging from multi-zone temperature control, automatic defog and defrosting, air-quality management, user interface interaction, automatic seat cooling/heating and steering wheel heating functions, etc. all developed by a small team of engineers within Tesla. Regular travel will be an essential part of this role.
What You’ll Do:
• Support Climate Controls Calibration for new programs which includes developing and validating calibration updates as well as managing the bring up of the climate controls stack by connecting with both hardware and software collaborators, managing priorities and expectations, feeding back test results and concerns in order to create uncompromised climate comfort experience
• Monitor, investigate, and root-cause customer feedback of climate control performance
• Develop and validate calibration updates to and improve performance of climate control functions like temperature control, defog/defrost, auto seat heating/cooling, air quality management, etc.
• Identify fundamental gaps in existing climate control algorithms and work with controls and firmware engineers to drive improvements
• Push to improve Tesla’s technology in climate control systems towards the goal of a “touchless” climate control system
• Regularly execute test plans to ensure stability of the customer experience across changing seasons and vehicle platforms/variants
• Scope-out, coordinate, and execute regular test-trips to various climatic conditions to develop, verify, and sign-off on climate control algorithm and calibration updates
• Be the voice of the customer when new HVAC hardware is being designed
