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Solexel, Inc.
Vice President of Engineering

POSITION FILLED

Solexel, Inc.'s goal is to become the solar industry leader through a revolutionary price/performance improvement by achieving SunPower efficiencies at less than First Solar cost and be the solar PV leader by being fastest to achieving grid parity at a multi-gigawatt production scale. This is enabled by its proprietary high-efficiency cell architecture and a simplified, lower cost cell manufacturing flow that requires significantly less silicon. The core cell design and manufacturing approaches are protected by several broad patent filings and is so unique it has won two highly competitive Solar America Initiative research grants from the US Department of Energy.

The company was founded by renowned, award-winning scientist/inventor Dr. Mehrdad Moslehi. Solexel has many core foundational patents and has assembled a world-class solar technology team; including 23 Ph.Ds from top-tier universities. Solexel's approach is based on a disruptive, IP-protected, thin-film, mono-crystalline silicon solar cell technology which reduces silicon consumption by a significant margin compared to the current paradigm and substantially eliminates dependency on the silicon feedstock, ingot, and wafer supply chain. Active cell area is made through the use of plentiful, inexpensive silicon gas, as opposed to costly bulk silicon wafers. This results in a disruptive reduction in use of silicon, elimination of feedstock dependency and ingot growth and wafering, and a significant reduction of the overall cell and module production costs.

Solexel is extremely well-funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (John Denniston), Technology Partners (Ira Ehrenpreis) and DAG Ventures (Greg Williams). Other global investors include Northgate Capital, Oak Hill Capital, Westly Group, Ecofin (UK), Spirox (Asia) and Univest Group (M.E.). The company has raised $113 million in two rounds and an additional ~$4 million awarded in US Department of Energy grants. Its $100 million B round was the largest early round investment in a solar company. The company currently has over $60 million in the bank and is targeting high volume manufacturing to begin Q4 2010.

Solexel has 76 employees and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

The qualified candidate will have the following:

• Commercial success as either a Vice President/Director of Development or Engineering in a solar company or a semiconductor company that developed their own processes and devices (not fabless).
• Track record of developing complex high volume, lost cost 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/product management skills evidenced by delivering simultaneously on multiple complex programs across multiple technologies.
• Leadership skills that inspire followership and that result in an esprit de corps throughout the technology team.
• BSEE/Physics /Chemistry or equivalent required, MS preferred.

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