R&D Solar Durability Technician

Tandem PV•San Jose, CA

About The Position

At Tandem PV, we are a team of people who are passionate about building a more sustainable world by bringing cost effective solar panels onto the market. We’re scaling metal-halide perovskite solar technology to make best-in-class mechanically stacked tandem modules. We have built efficient, durable cells, monolithic multi-cell submodules, and packaged modules with our scalable, low-cost process. Our next focus is expanding our team to work in our new pilot manufacturing facility. Job Summary: As a Durability Technician, you’ll play a key role on the R&D team creating consistency in our testing processes, building set ups, and collecting data to feed back into the R&D process. This is a crucial next step in our growth and ability to scale as a company.

Requirements

Experience with electronics in testing environments
Experience maintaining and troubleshooting processing tools
Hands on lab experience - including knowledge of safety in a wet chemistry environment and safe use of hazardous materials

Nice To Haves

Python programming experience
Experience working in a solar company

Responsibilities

Build consistent testing hardware and software setups, then process small scale cells through those setups in a fashion that allows for clean data reads and outputs to the team.
Maintain all wiring and assembly gear in a way that ensures cleanliness, consistent connection, and maintenance for long term use will result in clean data and usable metrology to confidently share our success with customers.
Durability testing including lamination, edge seal cutting, glass cutting, cleaning, etc
Maintain samples on durability tests
Pull samples and processing them as needed.
Use various metrology techniques to measure samples, including : JV, EL, PL, Microscopy, etc.