Software Engineer

Education And Experience

 

• Master's degree in IT, Engineering, or related field with four years of related external work
• experience or two years of First Solar software development experience OR
• Bachelor's degree in IT, Engineering, or related field with six years of of related external work
• experience or 4 years of First Solar software development experience OR
• Associate's degree in IT, Engineering, or related field with eight years of related external work
• experience or six years of First Solar software development experience OR
• Ten + years of related external work experience or eight years of First Solar IT experience.
• 6+ years in either manufacturing systems or on software development teams using
• Microsoft .NET technologies preferred
• 2+ years of experience interfacing with manufacturing control systems, shop floor interface/
• automation systems, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), or OPC data transfer preferred
• 4+ years experience
  • Developing JavaScript/HTML/CSS in modern front-end framework (Angular or React)
• preferred.
  • Developing Python in Flask or Django preferred.
  • Developing efficient data structures in relational databases, MS SQL Server preferred.
     

Required Skills

 

• Demonstrated expertise with manufacturing software architecture and execution systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and programming software solutions skills based on multi-tiered
• architecture using C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, T-SQL, and message processing (MSMQ, RabbitMQ,
• Kafka).
• Proven expertise in designing data structures and using/configuring/querying SQL Server
• databases.
• Experience interfacing with Allen Bradley Logix PLCs and RSLinx software is preferred.
• Experience with Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0, Vision, AI/ML, Automation is a plus.
• Demonstrated success in integrating manufacturing hardware and 3rd party software systems.
• Experience with Service Fabric is preferred.
• Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is preferred.
• Experience with Angular and AngularJS is preferred.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Git, YAML, and deploying via Pipelines is preferred.
• Experience in developing, deploying, and supporting Windows mobile applications is a plus.
• Proven Organizational and Project Managerial skills.
• Proven experience with software development life cycle, Agile teams, change management
• process, and version control packages.
• Excellent understanding of computer operating systems and software applications.
• Excellent understanding of enterprise data systems.
• Logical troubleshooting skills.
• Proven interpersonal communications, including the ability to drive international projects with
• multinational team members.
• Global experience providing tier three support in a manufacturing environment is a plus