Craftsmanship Intern
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Job Description
About Tesla’s Craftsmanship Team:
The Tesla Craftsmanship team is dedicated to ensuring all Tesla products meet the highest perceived quality standards, creating a compelling in-store experience and faultless product usage. They achieve this by collaborating with various teams throughout the product lifecycle: working with Product Management to define product content; with the Design Studio to resolve concept issues; with Engineering and Dimensional teams to establish achievable quality targets; and with Manufacturing and Quality teams to address pre-production and launch challenges.
Job Description: Craftsmanship Intern
This internship offers broad exposure to vehicle design and engineering, encompassing all customer-facing systems (seats, interior/exterior trim, etc.). Interns will be embedded within the Engineering team, fostering cross-functional collaboration and a significant impact on the final product. Key responsibilities include:
• Target Setting, Communication, and Validation: Establishing measurable engineering targets for world-class craftsmanship through competitor benchmarking and data analysis. Validating these targets using physical models, mockups, and digital visualization tools. Communicating and negotiating targets with Engineering and Studio teams, ensuring achievability, and supporting implementation.
• Quantification of Customer Feeling: Translating subjective customer perceptions into objective engineering targets. This involves quantifying premium look, sound, or feel, identifying sensory inputs for a superior customer experience (e.g., defining the optimal firmness and dimensions of an armrest through engineering specifications).
Required Skills and Qualifications:
• Currently pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related field.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and understanding of factors contributing to exceptional perceived quality.
• Understanding of good design and user experience fundamentals, and supporting engineering principles.
• Appreciation for the impact of dimensional variation in assemblies.
• Basic understanding of statistical analysis (advantageous).
• Ability to measure and quantify subjective data to develop robust craftsmanship targets.
• Strong numeracy, literacy, and logical reasoning skills.
Internship Details:
• Start Date: August or September 2025.
• Duration: Minimum 12 weeks, full-time, on-site. Potential extension into Winter/Spring 2026.
• Eligibility: Actively enrolled students. Recent graduates should apply for full-time roles.
• International Students: Must have authorization to work 40 hours per week on-site (CPT holders should consult their school). Many international students may be limited to part-time work during the academic year.
