Wet Etch Equipment Engineer, Solar Cells (HJT)

SpaceX; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SpaceX's Starlink division seeks a Wet Etch Equipment Engineer to own the chemical processing tools used to manufacture silicon heterojunction solar cells at scale. You will ensure tool availability, uptime, and reliability while collaborating with the Texturing Process Engineering team to meet throughput and quality goals.

You will lead preventive maintenance, manage spare parts, and drive equipment performance metrics (OEE, MTBF).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience owning and maintaining chemical process equipment in a high-volume semiconductor or solar manufacturing environment.
• Experience handling hazardous chemicals and gases safely.

Responsibilities

• Install, qualify, maintain, and improve high-throughput texturing and preclean equipment for heterojunction silicon solar cell manufacturing.
• Drive equipment reliability and uptime to support large volume production; run experiments and analyze data to improve capacity and defect performance.
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance strategies, spare parts programs, and tool matching for high-volume manufacturing.
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions on equipment issues including chemical delivery, pumps, filtration, and robotics/automation.
• Collaborate with Process Engineers to implement new requirements on existing and future equipment platforms.

Skills

Chemical delivery systems

Wet process equipment

Pumps

Filtration

Temperature control

Robotics/automation

Equipment uptime

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related

Tools

JMP

Minitab

Job description

SpaceX's Starlink division seeks a Wet Etch Equipment Engineer to own the chemical processing tools used to manufacture silicon heterojunction solar cells at scale. You will ensure tool availability, uptime, and reliability while collaborating with the Texturing Process Engineering team to meet throughput and quality goals.

You will lead preventive maintenance, manage spare parts, and drive equipment performance metrics (OEE, MTBF).