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Municipal Utility Market Research Intern

SunPowerRichmond, CA
Overview:

Are you ready to change the future? You have the opportunity to join the company that helped establish solar markets around the world and continues to innovate in the renewable energy space. SunPower has facilities in the US, Europe and Asia, and we are seeking talented people to join us in building a clean energy future.


Widely recognized as the world's standard for solar, SunPower produces the world's highest efficiency solar products.  Our quality and reliability standards far exceed those of any other company in the industry.


SunPower and Total, the global energy producer and provider, have announced a transformational investment by Total in SunPower.  The companies have signed a set of strategic agreements to accelerate SunPower's growth in the increasingly competitive solar sector. Total's investment is based on SunPower's leading position in designing, manufacturing and delivering the world's highest efficiency, highest reliability solar systems with guaranteed performance.  These agreements will accelerate SunPower's growth and further improve its financial strength.

SunPower is committed to the success of our company, our employees and the communities around the world that need us most.  We support our employees' commitment to their communities through a culture of volunteerism, and through The SunPower Foundation, which makes grants to green initiatives throughout the world. As a company, we operate with the highest sustainability standards.


In an industry that is reshaping the world's energy future, there's no better place to be than SunPower.

Summary of Role:

SunPower's utility and power plant team is a strategic and execution focused team, responsible for SunPower's origination and development of large-scale business transactions that are key to the company's growth. We work and collaborate across many areas of the company, including product management, marketing, research and development and project fulfillment teams. Also, we regularly interact with customers in developing value propositions that advance the use of solar energy in multiple applications.


ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following (other duties may be assigned):

As a Market Research Intern, you will have the opportunity to:
Prepare a report analyzing the market for solar power with municipal utilities in targeted states.
Interact with representatives of municipal utilities and their trade associations to gather information about their business strategies, plans for procuring renewable energy and approaches for complying with public policies that promote solar energy.
Identify and schedule participation by various representatives of SunPower at appropriate trade association meetings and individual utility public events and attend those meetings.
Integrate technical information into sale presentation formats that are suitable for executives and decision makers at municipal utilities.

Minimum Requirements:

- Currently enrolled in a business, policy or engineering program from leading university.

Preferred Requirements:

- Experience working in a business environment with multiple stakeholder groups.
- Superior communication skills both verbal and writing. Ability to organize complex technical and business information in a format appropriate for executive decision making.
- High level competence in Microsoft Office including Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Experience with Microsoft Project or other scheduling software is a plus.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, growth environment.
- Excellent organizational skills with attention to detail.

OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION

- Richmond, California
- Must be open to some travel to conferences and meetings with municipal utilities
- Candidate must be currently enrolled within an academic program and preferably within one year of graduation to be considered.
- Candidate must be able to complete a minimum of 10 weeks and a maximum of 12 weeks during the Summer Intern Program with start dates of June 3rd or June 17th. An average of 40 hours per week is expected.
- Candidate must be legally entitled to work and reside in the U.S.

Performance Engineer Intern

SunPowerRichmond, CA
Overview:

Are you ready to change the future? You have the opportunity to join the company that helped establish solar markets around the world and continues to innovate in the renewable energy space. SunPower has facilities in the US, Europe and Asia, and we are seeking talented people to join us in building a clean energy future.


Widely recognized as the world's standard for solar, SunPower produces the world's highest efficiency solar products.  Our quality and reliability standards far exceed those of any other company in the industry.


SunPower and Total, the global energy producer and provider, have announced a transformational investment by Total in SunPower.  The companies have signed a set of strategic agreements to accelerate SunPower's growth in the increasingly competitive solar sector. Total's investment is based on SunPower's leading position in designing, manufacturing and delivering the world's highest efficiency, highest reliability solar systems with guaranteed performance.  These agreements will accelerate SunPower's growth and further improve its financial strength.

SunPower is committed to the success of our company, our employees and the communities around the world that need us most.  We support our employees' commitment to their communities through a culture of volunteerism, and through The SunPower Foundation, which makes grants to green initiatives throughout the world. As a company, we operate with the highest sustainability standards.


In an industry that is reshaping the world's energy future, there's no better place to be than SunPower.

Summary of Role:

SunPower's RD Performance Group is responsible for characterizations and projections of installed system performance. The group creates and maintains specialized computer simulation software to model the energy output of SunPower products and systems, analyzes the long-term energy performance of a large fleet of grid-connected PV plants, and performs targeted field and lab tests to characterize the performance of both new and existing technologies.
The performance engineering intern's focus may involve analysis of operational data, model or software tool development, or experimental testing and analysis. Some travel and field work may be required.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Develop and execute research, analysis and test plans
Characterize system performance using remotely-acquired energy and meteorological data
Characterize systems and components using measured field data such as I-V curves, string current and open circuit voltage tests
Develop procedures and methods for collecting and analyzing test data
Develop computational algorithms and validate against measured data
Develop computational tools to assist in analysis and prediction
Communicate key results of research in a timely and effective manner to all stakeholders through memos, reports and presentations
Work closely with other engineers, and work on cross-functional teams with a strong drive for results
Innovate, and solve challenging technical problems with a positive, solution-oriented approach
Field work requires ability to perform light construction

Minimum Requirements:

Upper division college student in Engineering or related field
Experience with object-oriented programming and database theory
Experience with experimental design, testing and analysis

Preferred Requirements:

Strong communications skills, both verbal and written, and a proven ability to work with internal and external customers
Strong project management/organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple tasks from multiple requestors

Strong understanding of basic electrical wiring and data acquisition and communication
Power industry experience, particularly solar industry, preferred
Strong programming ability, software development experience a plus

Background in statistics is highly desirable
Some background in climate or atmospheric science a plus
Experience with OSI-PI , MATLAB and Python is a plus
Creative, self-motivated and self-directed, and able to multi-task a large variety of projects in a fast-paced environment

Social Media and Project Research for Online Education Company

CareerEagleBurlingame, CA — Virtual
About PathSource: PathSource offers a one stop career education solution. The company solves the #1 problem reported by students in surveys: theres no connection between the classroom and the real world. The core of the PathSource solution is 1-3 minute informational interviews on video produced by an Emmy winning staff (our executive producer has won 3 Emmys and been nominated 12 times) to help young people gain visibility into their options and figure out what to do with their lives. The videos enable students to gain visibility into a wide range of possible jobs and career paths and hear about them directly from people who work in these positions. The goal is to get young people excited about a career and learn exactly what it takes to get there. PathSources platform includes a range of salary, career path and other information, as well as customized online assignments to supplement the videos. About The Role: 1. Managing our social media feeds: This means being the face of the company via social media and aggressively seeking out new followers on Twitter. It's not very time consuming but it is important. 2. Blogging: Writing at least 1 blog post per week about a relevant career/job related subject. These will be 2-3 short paragraphs long. 3. Ad hoc projects: Some of these will be serious research projects like helping us find and apply for various government grants and some of them will be important but more "grunt" work like re-tagging the videos to make them more easily searchable. It's ~15 hours per week with an associated stipend. The main qualifications we're looking for are good writing skills, a good work ethic and someone who we actually want to spend time with. Much of the work can be done from home but we'd like to see you in the office at least once a week if you're in the Bay Area so that we can catch up on how your work is going.