Eli Marlin

Background

About Eli Marlin

Currently supporting Tesla’s vehicle reliability and test team. Our team develops bespoke engineered solutions for the hardware test engineers across all vehicle systems. Former life: Systems Engineer, specializing in AMI / SmartGrid networks. This line of work is quite fascinating, and provides opportunities to develop solutions to meet technical and logistical challenges relating to the deployment of SmartGrid mesh networks for the electric utility sector. In this role, I work with customers to solve their most challenging radio network deployment problems in environments ranging from dense urban environments to extreme rural. When not in the field, I work in the lab on new product development. Specialties- RF network testing, deployment and analysis - Radio troubleshooting, failure analysis - Antenna system analysis - Product design and integration - Field support of emergent technology and proof of concept systems - Design of test methods and fixtures for radio and powerline carrier communication chipsets - Serving as a conduit from the engineering world to the sales, operations and business development side of the company