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Alta Devices, Inc.
Vice President of Engineering

POSITION FILLED

Alta Devices is driving a new dawn in solar energy by developing solar cells up to 30% efficient at a module cost below 50¢/watt. Alta has developed a unique and foundational thin-film technology that delivers the world’s highest efficiency/lowest cost solar modules. Alta’s solar cells are based on high efficiency compound semiconductor materials and proprietary manufacturing equipment to grow thin film solar cells. The technology is compatible with both rigid modules and roll-to-roll processing.

Founded by renowned solar experts Harry Atwater of Cal Tech and Eli Yablonovitch of UCB, Alta has filed 29 patents and has assembled a world-class solar technology team of 12 PhD’s, 8 of which are from Cal Tech and MIT.

Alta is well funded by premier venture firms Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers (Bill Joy), August Capital (Andy Rappaport), Crosslink Capital (Alain Harrus), New Enterprise Associates (Forest Baskett) and Technology Partners (Ira Ehrenpreis) with a Series B financing concluded 4/1/09.

Alta has 37 employees and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

The qualified candidate will have the following:

• Commercial success as either a Vice President of Engineering or Vice President of Development in a front end semiconductor capital equipment company or a Vice President of Engineering, Vice President of Development or senior Fab executive in a semiconductor company that developed their own processes and devices (not fabless).
• Track record of developing complex products, on time and on budget that met performance and quality goals.
• Proven success at recruiting, motivating and retaining all star scientists and engineers.
• Excellent program management skills evidenced by delivering simultaneously on multiple complex programs across multiple technologies on time/budget.
• Leadership skills that inspire followership and the result in an esprit de corps throughout the technology team.
• BSEE/Physics or equivalent required, MS/MBA preferred.

» For additional information, a more robust position description, or confidential consideration regarding this position, please contact Frank Moscow

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