Engineer- Development II (Reliability Physics)

First Solar•Perrysburg, OH

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About The Position

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. Basic Job Functions: Develop predictive physical and physics-inspired phenomenological models to study and improve fabrication processes, performance, and stability of new device technologies. Design experiments to parametrize developed models and verify their accuracy and dependability.

Requirements

Associate’s Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 15 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years of experience as a Development Engineer I at First Solar.
Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 5 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years of experience as a Development Engineer I at First Solar.
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.
Ph.D. in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline, without prior technical work experience.
Technical expert and innovator in one area of photovoltaic processes and/or equipment development.
Expert and hands on experience in laboratory or manufacturing environment.
In depth knowledge in several fields from the list of photovoltaic device theory, materials science, process engineering, characterization techniques and other fields relevant to First Solar's technology.
Strong sense of project ownership with hands-on and can-do attitude.
Strong communication skills across organizations.
Knowledge of Microsoft suite of applications
Knowledge of jmp or other statistical analysis tools
Knowledge of Matlab
Knowledge of Python and/or c++
Must be able to comply with all safety standards and procedures.
Ability to wear personal protective equipment is required (including but not limited to steel toed shoes, gloves, safety glasses, hearing protection, protective jacket or apron and arm guards).
All associates working on the production floor may be required to wear a respirator at any given time and thus, the ability to wear a respirator is a condition of employment and continued employment (requires little or no facial hair).

Responsibilities

Develop, parametrize, and verify models that quantitatively describe defect chemistry and mass transport in semiconductor stack during fabrication and field operation, as well as resulting device performance assess durability of device design and packaging in terms of its resistance to moisture ingress, electro-chemical corrosion, and abnormal operating conditions
Use developed models to optimize device architecture and fabrication process in terms of performance and reliability of PV module
Provide data-driven recommendations to management on specific changes to improve device performance and reliability.
Identify opportunities for improvement in solar cell efficiency, material selection and process/equipment design through engineering, scientific or empirical methods.
Improve state of the art techniques for material analysis, statistical analysis of data, or execution planning of experiments.
Develop a work plan that has unclear solution paths.
May be responsible to determine and evaluate material specification for improved performance.
May be responsible to determine and evaluate tool/equipment specifications.
Effective communicator with internal and external partners and customers.
Effective team members that can support cross-functional projects and take ownership of sub-deliverables.
May train, mentor and manage junior and peers on specific subject matters.
Other duties as assigned.