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Mechanical Design Engineering Internship, Battery Engineering, Tesla Engineering Germany (m/f/d)

Tesla 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

Onsite Contract Internship

Design, model, prototype, and test battery components, test fixtures, and assemblies to improve battery performance, cost, mass, and manufacturability. Analyze test results and failures, document findings, and collaborate with manufacturing, testing, NPI, supply chain, and other engineering teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, model, prototype, and test battery components, test fixtures, and assemblies to improve battery performance, cost, mass, and manufacturability. Analyze test results and failures, document findings, and collaborate with manufacturing, testing, NPI, supply chain, and other engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Applicants must be pursuing a bachelor's, master's, or advanced degree in mechanical engineering or a related field and have strong engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience. They should be proficient in CAD modeling and knowledgeable in tolerance analysis, GD&T, FEA, and basic thermal modeling; English fluency is required, while German is a plus.

Key Skills

Mechanical Design CAD Modeling SolidWorks AutoCAD Tolerance Analysis GD&T Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Thermal Modeling Prototype Development Battery Component Design Test Fixture Design Manufacturability Optimization Cost Reduction Mass Optimization Test Data Analysis Failure Analysis Documentation Cross‑functional Collaboration Manufacturing Liaison Supply Chain Coordination English Fluency German (plus) Problem Solving Attention to Detail

About Tesla

Tesla is accelerating the world’s transition to sustainable abundance. To achieve our mission, we're building a world powered by solar, enabled by battery storage and transported by electric vehicles. We’re committed to hiring and developing top talent from around the world for any given discipline. Headquartered in Texas, we operate six huge, vertically integrated factories across three continents. With over 100,000 employees, our teams take a first-principles approach to designing, building, selling and servicing our products in-house. Our world-class teams operate with a non-conventional philosophy of inter-disciplinary collaboration. Each member of the team is expected to challenge and to be challenged, to create, and to innovate. We’re tackling the world’s most difficult and important problems—and we wouldn’t succeed without our shared passion for making the world a better place.

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