Engineer- Full Stack USA

First Solar reserves the right to offer you a role most applicable to your experience and skillset. Basic Job Functions: - Design, develop, and maintain full stack AI-powered web applications that support the organization’s digital transformation and product engineering initiatives. - Build and deploy production-grade applications using React/TypeScript frontends and Python/FastAPI backends on Azure cloud infrastructure. - Architect scalable, containerized solutions and establish reusable design patterns across multiple AI product workstreams spanning analytics, reliability engineering, technical sales, and field operations. - Collaborate with data scientists and cross-functional stakeholders to integrate large language models (LLMs), AI agents, and machine learning models into bespoke business applications. - Design and implement data engineering pipelines to ingest, transform, and serve data from heterogeneous sources including SQL databases and third-party APIs. - Oversee

architectural decisions, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code to ensure reliability, security, and maintainability across the software development lifecycle. - Provide technical leadership by researching and adopting industry-standard best practices, setting engineering standards, and mentoring team members on software engineering principles. Education/Experience: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field is required. - Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related discipline is preferred. - Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in full stack software development with modern web frameworks and cloud-native architectures is required. - Experience with AI/ML integration, LLM-based application development, Azure cloud services, and DevOps practices is highly preferred. - Experience designing and building ETL/ELT data pipelines, data ingestion workflows, or data platform architectures is preferred. Required Skills/Competencies: Strong proficiency in React with TypeScript and modern frontend tooling (Vite, Tailwind CSS). Advanced backend development skills in Python (FastAPI), with the ability to design and build RESTful APIs and asynchronous services. Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services including Container Apps, Blob Storage, Cognitive Search, Key Vault, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure Identity, and Azure Data Factory or equivalent data integration services. Proficiency in containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes, and experience building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or Azure Pipelines. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for provisioning and managing cloud resources. Strong knowledge of SQL databases (Microsoft SQL Server preferred), ORM frameworks (SQLAlchemy), and database migration tools (Alembic). Data engineering skills including designing ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, data ingestion from heterogeneous sources (SQL, Excel, flat files, APIs), and data quality validation. Demonstrated experience integrating AI/ML models and large language models (LLMs) into production-grade applications. Solid understanding of application security best practices including OWASP principles, input validation, secrets management, and RBAC/OAuth/OIDC authentication and authorization patterns. Experience with testing frameworks and methodologies including unit testing, integration testing, and test automation (Pytest, Jest, React Testing Library). Knowledge of caching strategies (Redis), query optimization, and application performance tuning for high-availability systems. Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as