Technical Program Manager Intern, Drive Unit Development

What To Expect
Location: Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Duration: 6 months

Time type: Full-time

Start Date: December 2025 / January 2026

Tesla's drive unit development team is looking for skilled and motivated engineering students to push the drive unit propelling our vehicles to the next level. The team is presently working to improve the current - and design the next - generation of drive units and is looking for students aspiring to grow technically and personally while contributing to projects that are critical to the team's success. It's an exciting work environment with plenty of engineering resources and bright colleagues to collaborate with. As an industry leading company, Tesla offers the opportunity to work on bleeding edge technology in a fast paced, dynamic, and high visibility role.

What You'll Do- Support the successful execution of launches and improvement projects defining, tracking, communicating, and adjusting relevant schedules in an organized and methodical way, for example using JIRA.
- Coordinate with engineering leaders, vendors, and cross-functional teams, e.g. manufacturing, reliability, and testing, across the globe to plan, de-risk, and guide programs from approval to completion.
- Understand technical issues, prevent and identify blockers and drive them to closure, escalate as appropriate.
- Manage build plans across multiple programs facilitating logistics, supporting production, and driving validation.
What You'll Bring- B.Sc. in Engineering in a relevant field (e.g., Automotive, Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics), currently working towards a M.Sc., with strong fundamentals and evidence of exceptional ability.
- Experience planning schedules and resources, analyzing and defining metrics and business cases for program implementations, with proven ability to drive them to success under pressure.
- Proactive and organized collaborator, detail-oriented, with strong technical communication and documentation ability.
- Familiarity with program management tools.
Additional Preferred Skills- Fundamentals of drive units, electric motors, traction inverters, and geartrains.
- Understanding of the manufacturing challenges associated to mass production.
- Passion for innovation and driven to contribute to the development of cutting-edge products.
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