Sr. Chemical Texturing Equipment Engineer, Solar Cells (Starlink) is open at SpaceX in Austin, TX. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $193K. Posted on Jul 28, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Work with facilities and process engineering teams to install, qualify, maintain, and continuously improve high-throughput texturing and preclean equipment for heterojunction silicon solar cell manufacturing Drive equipment reliability and uptime to support very large volume production with minimal downtime. Run experiments and analyze data to improve capacity (UPH), reduce tool-to-tool variation, and improve defect…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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