Sr. Cvd Equipment Engineer, Solar Cells (starlink)

SpaceX

Bastrop, TX, United States
On-site
Pecvd equipment maintenance
High-volume manufacturing environment
Vacuum systems
You will own the PECVD equipment used to manufacture silicon heterojunction solar cells at massive scale, ensuring world-class equipment performance, reliability, and uptime

Job Summary

  • You will own the PECVD equipment used to manufacture silicon heterojunction solar cells at massive scale, ensuring world-class equipment performance, reliability, and uptime.
  • Your work will form the backbone of the Starlink network, helping to provide internet to tens of millions of customers and supporting missions to the Moon and Mars.
  • Responsibilities include driving equipment reliability, running experiments to improve capacity and reduce variation, developing maintenance strategies, and leading root cause analysis for equipment issues.

Matching Summary

You will own the PECVD equipment used to manufacture silicon heterojunction solar cells at massive scale, ensuring world-class equipment performance, reliability, and uptime.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • PECVD equipment maintenance
  • High-volume manufacturing environment
  • Vacuum systems
  • RF generators
  • Gas delivery systems
  • Reliability and uptime improvement

Nice-to-have

  • Aerospace manufacturing standards
  • First principles physics-based approach
  • Vendor collaboration for design improvements
  • Statistical process control implementation

Key Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in STEM discipline
  • 5+ years of CVD/PECVD equipment experience
  • Experience with hazardous chemicals and gases
  • 7+ years of CVD/PECVD equipment experience (preferred)
  • Experience with HJT silicon solar cell manufacturing (preferred)
  • Experience scaling equipment from pilot to high volume (preferred)

Work Rights

US citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee

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