Job Description

Maxeon

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Competitive

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Permanent

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Job ID:

124028788

Company:

Maxeon

Posted On:

03 November 2022

Maxeon Solar Technologies
is a global leader in solar innovation. Built from 35 years of boundary-pushing solar innovation, Maxeon designs, manufactures, and sells industry-leading SunPower branded solar products. Maxeon is Powering Positive Change every day with a brilliant, passionate and driven team of more than 5,000 people globally.

We push the boundaries
, taking solar technology higher, faster, and farther than before.

We hold ourselves to a higher standard
, striving for the highest integrity, safety, and quality.

We thrive together
as a global team, embracing our diverse backgrounds to make a positive impact on the world.

Join us in POWERING POSITIVE CHANGE(TM)

Summary of Role:

In this role, as a Staff Wet Process Engneer within Maxeon's solar cell R&D Cell Technology Development (CTD) team, Engineer will use sound and proven engineering principles to assist in developing processes and process requirements from internal and external stakeholders and that is pushing the limits of Wet Etching/Texturing processing, equipment and metrology for current and next-generation solar cell technologies. This engineer will have a significant role in guiding and contributing to technology roadmaps, in addition to your responsibilities for process development and optimization addressing some key technical issues during the development phase prior full transfer to high volume manufacturing (HVM).

This position will lead efforts to understand current and future needs of Cell Fab Manufacturing, explore and evaluate new technologies and concepts for meeting those needs, and rapidly demonstrate feasibility of such technologies through rigorous modeling, analysis, experimentation and other risk identification and mitigation activities.

The position will transfer and work on process development/scale up or new products from R&D. Involvement may begin from feasibility at R&D team then deploy to full scale manufacturing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilites:

-Primary responsibility is the development of Wet process (not limited to etching and texturing process) to improve the efficiency, cost, reliability and quality of solar cells.
-Coordinating/executing experiments in the laboratory, at production sites, and at vendor sites.
-Analyzing and presenting data clearly and concisely, with recommendations.
-Integration of new processes to upstream and downstream processing and product requirements.
-Identifying critical process/equipment interactions and working with equipment engineers (especially to Equipment Design and Development engineer) to ensure that existing and future Wet Etch Tooling can deliver robust and scalable process
-Works closely with equipment engineer, integration engineer, quality engineer and reliability engineer to optimize process so as to improve FAB performance such as Quality, Yield, OEE & Cost.
-Reduce the cost of indirect materials and other consumables in production lines using Data Analysis, Engineering Evaluations and Process Characterizations.
-Leader of any process related activities/ improvement.
-Leading process simplification/ optimization activities.
-Process owner for sustaining electrical yield performance and cost down initiatives.
-Participates in SPC team meeting and sharing the process SPC performances.
-Document owner and perform sunset review timely for process recipe and SOP.
-Provides guidance and training to Junior Engineer, Process and Qual Technicans.
-Perform cross function communication and negotiation with suppliers.
-Submit weekly report timely.

Knowledge and Technical Skills:

-Demonstrates technical process/equipment expertise.
-Suggests alternative solutions to complex issues.
-Expert in technical leadership or process/ equipment qualification and development methodologies.

Complexity:

-Works on problems of diverse scope, where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
-Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
-Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise.
-Solves complex technical problems within area of designation.
-Uses all resources at hand, internal and external, the most appropriate problem solving techniques.
-Uses understanding of the root cause to develop future innovation opportunities.

Teamwork, Collaboration and Influence:

-Insures that knowledge and information are appropriately communicated.
-Encourages collaboration by engaging others in problem solving.
-Collaborates company-wide on cross-functional, cross-divisional teams.
-Adept at working directly with customer or customer representative to discuss technical matters.

Initiative:

-Works independently, providing leadership for some project elements.
-Develops and recommends solutions for problems of diverse scope. Creative Thinking and Innovation:
-Applies diverse experience from multiple projects to solve problems, benefit the project team and/or develop new technical roadmaps.
-Looks for innovative ways to improve operational methods to align with SunPower values.

Impact and Results Focus:

-Delivers results that positively impact productivity and quality of finished work or product.
-Demonstrates strong understanding of project scope and logic, including economics and relationship to needs of SunPower's customers.

Minimum Education and Experience:

-B.S. degree in Chemical or Materials Engineering and 4+ years of related experience or M.S. Degree and 2+ years or Ph.D. and 0+ years
-OR equivalent combination of education and years of related experience

Equal Employment Opportunity

Maxeon Solar Technologies is an equal employment opportunity employer and makes employment decisions, including but not limited to, hiring, firing, promotion, demotion, training, and/or compensation, on the basis of merit. Employment decisions are based on an individual's qualifications as they relate to the job under consideration. The Company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions, the actual sex of the individual, or the gender identity or gender expression), race, color, religion, including religious dress practices and religious grooming practices, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran or military status, or any other consideration made unlawful by national, federal, state or local laws, ordinances, or regulations. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company, including supervisors and co-workers.