# Engineer- Development II (Reliability Physics)

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. Basic Job Functions: Develop predictive physical and physics-inspired phenomenological models to study and improve fabrication processes, performance, and stability of new device technologies. Design experiments to parametrize developed models and verify their accuracy and dependability. Education/Experience: Associate’s Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 15 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years of experience as a Development Engineer I at First Solar. Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 5 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years of experience as a Development Engineer I at First Solar. Master’s Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 3 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years of experience as a Development Engineer I at First Solar. Ph.D. in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline, without prior technical work experience. Skills/Competencies: Technical expert and innovator in one area of photovoltaic processes and/or equi

- **Id**: 321444
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/first-solar-engineer-development-ii-reliability-physics>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Perrysburg, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-03-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T14:27:07Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 244
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5276
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Solar Energy

## Company

- **Id**: 47033
- **Name**: First Solar
- **Domain**: firstsolar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/first-solar>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 101
- **Ghost share**: 0.01
- **Stale share**: 0.822
- **Repost share**: 0.02
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 7
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 80700
- **Max**: 115000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 115000

## Technologies

- **JMP** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 244

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: associate
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T16:36:15Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 45 · green card filings: 15; Filings 12m: 45

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.146
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 244
- **Expected fill days**: 7
- **Reasons**: conf:4, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 115000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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