Development Engineer II - Wet Processing

About the role

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset.

Reporting Relationships: This position will report to Development Engineer or Development Manager.

Responsibilities

• Perform material and device research to enhance thin film solar cell performance and stability and to reduce manufacturing cost.
• Responsible for projects or functions that are enablers to department goals and deliverables.
• Plan, execute and characterize laboratory experiments.
• Communicate results across organization.
• Accountable for experimental conclusions and recommendations.
• Applies statistical and engineering methods to optimize organizational effectiveness.
• Improves methods for use by others.
• 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.
• 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 member that can support cross-functional projects and