Senior Wet Process Equipment Engineer, Solar Cells

SpaceX; Texas; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Wet Process Equipment Engineer for Starlink solar cell production. You will own wet processing tools, drive uptime, and scale equipment for 1GW+ per tool, supporting heterojunction cell manufacturing for Starlink satellites and space missions.

You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure safety, quality, and high reliability in a demanding production environment. The role requires advancing tool availability, stability, and performance while partnering with process

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience owning and maintaining chemical process equipment in high-volume manufacturing.
• Experience handling flammable, toxic, corrosive, and/or hazardous chemicals safely.

Responsibilities

• Install, qualify, maintain, and improve high-throughput texturing and pre-clean equipment for heterojunction solar cells.
• Drive uptime and capacity improvements with data analysis and experiments.
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance and spare parts programs.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions on equipment issues (delivery systems, pumps, robotics, benches, abatement).
• Partner with Process Engineers to implement new requirements on existing/future platforms.
• Evaluate next-gen high-throughput tools for 1GW+ per tool scale.

Skills

Chemical processing

Equipment maintenance

Hazardous chemicals

Texturing tools

Process control

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Pumps

Filtration

Robotics

Automation

Exhaust/abatement

Job description

SpaceX is seeking a Sr. Wet Process Equipment Engineer for Starlink solar cell production. You will own wet processing tools, drive uptime, and scale equipment for 1GW+ per tool, supporting heterojunction cell manufacturing for Starlink satellites and space missions.

You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure safety, quality, and high reliability in a demanding production environment. The role requires advancing tool availability, stability, and performance while partnering with process