Tesla announced that it would recruit a large number of R & D personnel in Shanghai! On May 22, Tesla officially released recruitment information, including a large number of "hot positions" in Tesla China R & D and innovation center, covering vehicle software, hardware design engineering and power & amp; In many fields such as energy engineering, the main workplace is in Shanghai Lingang. Tesla China confirmed the fact that a large number of R & D personnel were recruited to the reporter of Shanghai Securities News.
In this regard, industry experts pointed out that the Shanghai base is expected to become the second headquarters of Tesla in the world, and it is expected to produce a new Chinese version of Tesla in the future.
Create new models with Chinese elements
"I sincerely invite you to join Tesla and work with us to achieve this goal." Tesla is the first R & D innovation center in the United States, which is located outside Tesla's local R & D port. Relying on the support of Shanghai Lingang for high-tech industry and the encouragement of new energy industry, Tesla R & D innovation center has been officially put into use in 2021.
As an important step in the localization development of Tesla in the Chinese market, Tesla R & D innovation center has complete specialties. At the same time, in order to make engineers better move towards the company's mission, the R & D center provides a diversified working environment for the team.
According to the introduction of Tesla, the positions of Tesla China R & D and Innovation Center involve vehicle software, hardware design engineering and power & amp; Energy engineering, regulatory certification, vehicle engineering, etc. except that a small number of jobs are located in Beijing, most of them are located in the port of Pudong New Area, Shanghai, where Tesla Shanghai Super factory is located.
It is noteworthy that Tesla specifically mentioned that the goal of the Chinese R & D team is to design, develop and produce new models and energy products with Chinese elements locally, so as to create them in China and sell them all over the world.
Tesla Shanghai Super factory production line
The importance of Shanghai base is highlighted
Tesla officials told the Shanghai Securities News that Tesla Shanghai R & D and innovation center and Tesla Shanghai Super factory data center were completed by the end of 2021.
At present, Tesla Shanghai R & D and innovation center has 28 laboratories. At this stage, it focuses on the development of Tesla's software, hardware, processes and technologies in China, undertakes the application adaptation and standard testing in the Chinese market, and participates in the research and development of global AI machine learning. Among them, low voltage electronic laboratory, firmware laboratory and materials laboratory are the three representative Chinese localization R & D teams of the R & D center.
It is worth mentioning that in the global chip shortage crisis, Tesla's R & D team iterated quickly and adjusted some software programs in a short time, alleviating the pressure of chip shortage. According to relevant Tesla sources, Tesla Shanghai R & D innovation center will carry out more original development work around complete vehicles, charging equipment and energy products in the future, and develop into a comprehensive R & D center of the same scale as the U.S. R & D center.
In addition, in accordance with the relevant requirements of the guidelines for the construction of Shanghai Data Center (version 2021), Tesla has completed the relevant approval and filing requirements of the data center, and built Tesla Shanghai Super factory data center to store factory production and other Chinese operation data.
Mei Songlin, an auto industry analyst, told the Shanghai Securities News that against the backdrop of the recent sluggish job market, Tesla has bucked the trend to recruit R & D personnel, reflecting the current strategic position of the Shanghai base for Tesla. Because of its high production efficiency, relatively low supply chain costs and labor costs, and strong support from the government, Shanghai base is very important for Tesla's global market supply and profit guarantee.
Mei Songlin analyzed that the strengthening of local R & D is the embodiment of the strategic position of Shanghai base. At the same time, if the Shanghai base has strong R & D capability, it is expected to become the second headquarters of Tesla in the world. This will bring great opportunities to enterprises including listed companies in Tesla industrial chain.