# Engineer- Development III - Polymer Chemistry

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. Basic Job Functions: 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 highly complex require significant innovation and critical to department objectives. Plan, execute and characterize development engineering experiments in the laboratory and manufacturing environment with strategic foresight. Drives actions with strategic foresight. Applies statistical and engineering methods to optimize organizational effectiveness. Improves methods for use by others. Education/Experience: Associate’s Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 20 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years of experience as a Development Engineer II at First Solar. Bachelor’s Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 10 years of relevant technical experience or 2 years of experience as a Development Engineer II at First Solar. Master’s Degree in an engineering discipline or similar technical discipline and 8 years of relev

- **Id**: 940528
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/first-solar-engineer-development-iii-polymer-chemistry>
- **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**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T00:02:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5494
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## 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**: 83
- **Open postings**: 100
- **Ghost share**: 0.01
- **Stale share**: 0.82
- **Repost share**: 0.03
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 7
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 84200
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120000

## Technologies

- **JMP** — Optional: no
- **MATLAB** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Office** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T17:32:09Z

## 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**: 55
- **Expected fill days**: 7
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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