Staff R&d Engineer

Powering Positive Change

In a world of constant change, the only way to make a meaningful impact is to stay ahead of the curve. That’s why at Maxeon Solar Technologies we’ve been pushing the boundaries of solar innovation every day for 35 years - from the very edge of outer space to countless rooftops below.

Our highly advanced solar products are powering the fight against climate change in more than 100 countries around the globe. And our brilliant, passionate, and driven team of more than 5,000 people globally are Powering Positive Change every day.

Are you ready to power positive change?

As a Staff R&D Engineer within the Maxeon R&D team, you will develop new designs and processes to lower the cost and enhance the performance and reliability of solar cell and module technologies. You will work within a team of process, equipment, and reliability engineers to assess and develop necessary toolsets and metrology to achieve these objectives. You will work on projects from design, process development, and reliability testing at a laboratory scale to implementation in high-volume manufacturing. This will require optimizing robust processes through rigorous characterization and statistical validation.

**Role Accountabilities**:
Lead strategically on the PV glass materials and mechanical designs of existing and next-generation solar panels
Evaluate and simulate the value proposition of any PV glass materials and whether they meet the product requirement in efficiency, cost, weight, reliability, and quality
Build prototypes and execute experiments in the laboratory, at production sites, and at vendor sites using techniques such as statistical design of experiments to verify the predicted benefits or issues
Analyze data to form conclusions, plans for next experiments, and recommended decisions and present them clearly and concisely
Own projects from initial development through transfer to high volume manufacturing and collaborate with cross-functional team of PV module engineers, cell scientists, reliability engineers, Ops, and product Managers
Support 8Ds of production issues and integrate new learnings into future designs

**Minimum Education and Experience**:
B.S degree in Engineering and 3-5 years of related experience OR M.S. degree and 1-3 years’ experience OR Ph.D
Experience with developing and reliability testing of module materials a plus

**Professional or Research experience in**:
Product design in project environment
Laboratory testing and field testing
Process development and deployment in high-volume manufacturing
Vendor management to ensure that their designs are technical-sound, cost-effective and delivered-on-time
Ability to combine technical and business considerations (e.g. cost, value propositions etc)
Self-starter, creative problem solver, persistent and flexible, able to get results
Team player, but able to work independently with little direction
Excellent communicator, both in oral presentations and written reports
Enthusiastic about learning new things and fully understanding issues and concepts
Willing to travel up to 25% of the time

**Preferred Experience**:
Specialists in PV Glass or manufacturing is a plus
Process development and/or reliability testing experience in solar photovoltaics, batteries, or semiconductor industries

**Experience with**:
**Materials characterization and failure analysis on PV glass**: Anti-reflective coating, physical or chemical tempering, porosity, uniformity, float glass, low Fe glass, glass warping, glass soiling, Silicon oxide, glass patterning, impact resistant glass, UV-vis spectrometer, glossmeter, contact angle measurement, ellipsometry, colorimetry, SEM, FTIR
Engineering statistics and statistical software (e.g. JMP)
Design of Experiment (DOE)
Statistical process control (SPC)
Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
Writing code for analyzing and fitting data - (ex. Python, matlab, JMP)

**Document management system**: Bill of Material (BOM), and Engineering Change (EC) Process

Safety Compliance
Your safety is our number one priority at Maxeon. All our employees must complete regular workplace safety training and comply with our mandatory safety standards.

Equal Employment Opportunity
It is Maxeon’s policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees. Maxeon will not tolerate unlawful discrimination against any applicant or employee because of race, color, national origin or ancestry, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, age, religion, disability, family care status, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by national, local, state or federal laws or regulations.