Wet-Process Equipment Engineer for High-Volume Solar Cells

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

Job summary

SpaceX is seeking an Equipment Engineer, Wet Process, to own the chemical processing equipment for silicon solar cells at scale. You will partner with the Texturing Process Engineering team to ensure tool availability, uptime, and reliability in a world-class production line.

You will lead maintenance strategies, drive improvements, and work with vendors on equipment design and upgrades to meet aggressive throughput goals for Starlink and Starship programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or related field.
• 2+ years owning and maintaining chemical process equipment in high-volume manufacturing.
• Experience handling hazardous chemicals safely.

Responsibilities

• Install, qualify, maintain, and improve high-throughput texturing and preclean equipment.
• Drive reliability and uptime for large-volume production with minimal downtime.
• Develop preventive and predictive maintenance programs and spare parts plans.
• Lead root cause analysis on equipment issues including chemical delivery and robotics.
• Collaborate with Process Engineers to implement new equipment requirements.
• Evaluate next-gen high-throughput tools to support 1GW+ per tool scale production.
• Ensure equipment meets cleanroom, safety, and high-reliability standards.

Skills

Wet process equipment ownership

Texturing tool expertise

Preventive maintenance

Root cause analysis

Hazardous chemical handling

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering

Tools

Chemical delivery systems

Robotics/automation

Exhaust/abatement systems

Texturing tool architecture

Job description

SpaceX is seeking an Equipment Engineer, Wet Process, to own the chemical processing equipment for silicon solar cells at scale. You will partner with the Texturing Process Engineering team to ensure tool availability, uptime, and reliability in a world-class production line.

You will lead maintenance strategies, drive improvements, and work with vendors on equipment design and upgrades to meet aggressive throughput goals for Starlink and Starship programs.