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Job Ref:	2013-3658
Employer:	SunPower.
City:	CA
Country:	United States

Job Description:

Overview: Do you want to make a bigger impact on the world? SunPower's vision is to change the way the world is powered, and we are doing that every day with a brilliant, passionate and driven team. SunPower is widely recognized as the global leader in high-efficiency solar for residential, commercial and utility markets. We operate in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia and are seeking talented people to join us in building a global clean energy future.

SunPower is committed to the success of our company, our employees and the communities around the world that need us most. We support our employees' commitment to their communities through a culture of volunteerism, and through The SunPower Foundation, which makes grants to green initiatives throughout the world. As a company, we operate with the highest sustainability standards.

In an industry that is reshaping the world's energy future, there's no better place to be than SunPower.
Summary of Role: We are looking for a motivated senior RD engineer to join our module development team that works on the next generation module designs and electrical integration. This person will be responsible for working with suppliers and develop cost effective solutions for module to system electrical integration. This activity involves collaborating with the other team members to understand the project goals; designing experiments or paper studies where appropriate, coordinating or executing the designed experiments; characterization the results; organizing and understanding the data; clear presentation and representation of the data highlighting gaps as well as conclusions; and finally determining the next step in development. An organized person with good inter-personal communication, self-directed and ability to multi-task a variety of projects in a high pace environment who would be willing to travel up to15% of their time would be most suited to this position. Our organization values collaboration and teamwork highly as this promotes productivity and creativity.
Minimum Requirements:

Evaluation of new components and designs for Junction Boxes, cables, connectors, diodes.
Develop processed and tools for Jbox attachment to the modules, deploy in manufacturing and support scaling to high volume manufacturing
Develop in process controls and metrology as needed as it related to Jbox functionality and process control
Demonstration and analysis of reliability and performance of Jbox and electrical interconnection with regard to 25 years product warranty
Vendor selection and management for components selection, tools and tests
Investigate design and reliability failures, conduct failure analysis (FA) and provide reports
Understanding the interactions of the new componnets with both upstream and downstream processes and materials
Take part in cross-functional teams for product development, corrective/preventive action, and process or infrastructure improvements
Work independently and with other engineers to establish functional requirements, and system cost and performance targets.
Develop plans, schedules, cost models and budgets for independent and small group projects
Designing of experiments, coordinating/executing experiments in the laboratory
Characterization of experimental results, analysis, understanding and presenting data
Communicating and negotiating with internal and external project customers
Excellent people skills, able to work with global teams in a diverse work environment

Preferred Requirements:

BS or MS in Physics, Electrical Engineering or related technical field
Strong background with minimum 3 years of direct experience in electrical components testing, electrical design
Ability and proven experience to think creatively, learn, and develop innovative solutions to interconnect electro/mechanical challenges involved with photovoltaic panels in the field
Experience with fatigue testing, thermal cycling of electro-mechanical components required
Experience with vendor management, establishment of joint development agreements, and project management a plus
Factory experience with materials handling, tool specification, start-up, and qualification of high volume manufacturing equipment a plus
Understanding of modern product and process development tools such as SPC and DOE
Solid understanding of electrical testing of PV modules and components desired
Ability to set up electrical test experiments in a laboratory environment, confortable working in an R&D Laboratory
Flexible, creative problem solver good at working with diverse groups
Excellent written and verbal skills
Self motivated, with ability to work both independently and with multiple teams
Self starter, comfortable with owning and driving a development projects

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Post Date:

07/25/2013

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