FIRST SOLAR - Santa Clara, CA

posted 13 days ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Santa Clara, CA
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. The position involves performing material and device research by designing and developing chemical processes to enhance thin film solar cell performance and stability while reducing manufacturing costs. You will be responsible for projects or functions that enable department goals and deliverables, planning, executing, and characterizing development engineering experiments in both laboratory and manufacturing environments. The role requires applying statistical and engineering methods to optimize organizational effectiveness and improve methods for use by others.

Responsibilities

  • Identify opportunities for improvement in solar cell efficiency, material selection, and process/equipment design through engineering, scientific, or empirical methods.
  • Apply state of the art techniques for material analysis, statistical analysis of data, or execution/planning of experiments.
  • Develop a work plan that can address problems with well understood solution paths.
  • Determine and evaluate material specifications for improved performance.
  • Determine and evaluate tool/equipment specifications.
  • Communicate effectively with internal and external partners and customers.
  • Support cross-functional projects and take ownership of sub-deliverables.
  • Train, mentor, and manage junior associates.
  • Comply with Company's Environmental, Quality, Safety, or any other policies that have been enforced.
  • Ownership of wet chemistry and thin film deposition tools such as ALD, CVD, spray coating, slot-die coating.

Requirements

  • PhD in Chemistry, Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, or similar technical discipline.
  • Master's Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 3 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years of experience as a Development Engineer I at First Solar.
  • Comprehensive understanding of functional business units core area (chemistry, semiconductor material properties, characterization and analysis methods, thin film deposition), with expert knowledge in at least one chemistry field.
  • Skills and hands-on experience in execution of experiments in laboratory or manufacturing environment.
  • Analytical skills to interpret data and derive conclusions.
  • Ability to make and execute detailed plans to achieve objectives with a strong sense of ownership.
  • Good communication skills across organizations.

Benefits

  • Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce.
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