Reliability Engineer - Photovoltaics
Swift SolarSan Carlos, California
Full Time
Posted June 24, 2026
$90k - $134k· Est.
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Job Description
At Swift Solar, our mission is to unlock the full potential of solar energy.
Key Responsibilities
- As a Reliability Engineer at Swift, you’ll drive cell-package interactions and module-level reliability, addressing the unique challenges of a first-generation technology moving from concept through certification and towards manufacturing.
- On a typical day, you might schedule and execute reliability tests on tandem mini-modules and full modules—spanning environmental, thermomechanical, and accelerated life tests such as damp heat, thermal cycling, UV, and outdoor exposure—then evaluate the results. You might perform failure analysis on tandem modules, design a non-standard accelerated stress protocol to reproduce a field failure, or coordinate third-party testing with external labs.
- You’ll contribute a reliability perspective, collaborate with the Product Management team on lifetime modeling, and develop hypotheses you communicate clearly to the Materials R&D, Process Engineering, and Product Development teams. As an early hire, you’ll help shape how the reliability function operates as the team grows and interacts with every part of the company along the way.
- You might be a good fit if you...
- Have 3–5 years of experience in PV module reliability, spanning from R&D to third-party validation and certification.
- Have a demonstrated ability to diagnose failure mechanisms and translate findings into data-driven insights for cross-functional teams.
- Have experience working with external testing labs to define and complete testing.
- Have a solid understanding of PV cell and module device physics.
- Have a proven ability to work well with cross-functional teams (R&D, Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing), showing strong communication and empathy.
- Are proficient in statistical analysis software (e.g., JMP) and the application of statistics to reliability analysis.
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