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Job Description

Perform site-specific engineering analysis or evaluation of energy efficiency and solar projects involving residential, commercial, or industrial customers. Design solar domestic hot water and space heating systems for new and existing structures, applying knowledge of structural energy requirements, local climates, solar technology, and thermodynamics.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2199.11

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Solar Energy Systems Engineers”.

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Tasks for “Research Engineer”

Develop standard operation procedures and quality or safety standards for solar installation work.
Perform thermal, stress, or cost reduction analyses for solar systems.
Create checklists for review or inspection of completed solar installation projects.
Design or coordinate design of photovoltaic (PV) or solar thermal systems, including system components, for residential and commercial buildings.
Provide technical direction or support to installation teams during installation, start-up, testing, system commissioning, or performance monitoring.
Review specifications and recommend engineering or manufacturing changes to achieve solar design objectives.
Develop design specifications and functional requirements for residential, commercial, or industrial solar energy systems or components.
Test or evaluate photovoltaic (PV) cells or modules.
Design or develop vacuum tube collector systems for solar applications.
Perform computer simulation of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation system performance or energy production to optimize efficiency.
Create plans for solar energy system development, monitoring, and evaluation activities.
Conduct engineering site audits to collect structural, electrical, and related site information for use in the design of residential or commercial solar power systems.
Create electrical single-line diagrams, panel schedules, or connection diagrams for solar electric systems, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.

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Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters
Direct current DC power supplies
Environmental chambers
Impact testers
Fluorescence spectrophotometers
Load frames
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Video cameras
Spin coaters
Reflectance spectrometers
Fatigue testers
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Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers
Optical scanners
Shear testers
Auger electron spectrometers
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Laser printers
Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems
Graphics tablets
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Raman spectrometers
Copy machines
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Potentiostats
Scanning electron microscopes SEM
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Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS
Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems
Focused ion beam FIB systems
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Thermal cyclers
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Optical compound microscopes
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Laser facsimile machines

Microsoft Office
Simulation software
Microsoft Outlook
PV Optics
The MathWorks MATLAB
HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
Microsoft Word
Autodesk AutoCAD
Autodesk AutoCAD LT
PVsyst
Microsoft Project
Microsoft Access
Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
Finite element method FEM software
RETScreen
Microsoft PowerPoint
Energy-10
ANSYS FLUENT
National Instruments LabVIEW
SolTrace
Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
Dassault Systemes SolidWorks
Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
Microsoft Excel
Data acquisition software
TurboCAD IMSI
Solar Advisor Model
SOLAR-2
Global positioning system GPS software