Director, Product Engineering & Management – Engineered Wafers (m/f/d)

Your profile

• PhD, Advanced degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Physics or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in semiconductor or photovoltaic product engineering, applications engineering or technical product management.
• Strong understanding of semiconductor device physics and silicon solar-cell architectures, ideally including HJT and/or TOPCon.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with a demonstrated ability to drive complex technical programs across teams and organizations without direct reporting authority.
• Experience translating customer requirements into product specifications and engineering development programs.
• Strong analytical capability in device (IV) characterization, experimental design and performance modelling.
• Experience leading complex customer qualification or joint-development programs across internal and external engineering teams.
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills. Ability to generate, world class, professional grade technical updates that that our customers in either technical or management functions will appreciate.
• Comfortable operating directly with senior customer engineers, scientists and technical leadership.
• Space PV, radiation testing or satellite experience is highly desirable but not essential.

Why us?

• A diverse team: Short decision-making processes, flat hierarchies and collaboration with experts from different areas await you.
• A diverse and exciting job: A company that contributes to the commercialisation of environmentally friendly solar energy with a low carbon footprint.
• Stability with a certain degree of flexibility: A permanent position with flexible working hours.
• Attractive remuneration programme: An attractive salary, a company pension scheme and profit-sharing for employees.
• Healthy balance: Take your physical and mental health to the next level with an annual health budget and a HanseFit membership!
• Expand your language skills: Optimise your career prospects with the language courses offered.

About us

At NexWafe, we're striving to set a new standard for the future of photovoltaic wafer production. The need for efficient, affordable and cleanly produced solar technology has never been greater – we're rising to meet that challenge.