Starlink Development Lead, Solar Ingot & Wafer is open at SpaceX in Bastrop, TX. The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $195K. Posted on Oct 16, 2026, and still on SpaceX’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Plan, schedule, and run development trials on ingot pullers, crop and square, multi-wire saws, cleaning, and related metrology Turn engineering intent into trial plans: DOE, recipe versions, material lots, fixtures and consumables, and success criteria (yield, TTV, warp, resistivity, lifetime, breakage, kerf) Define process windows (pull rate, rotation, hot zone, slurry or diamond wire, tension, coolant, clean…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on SpaceX’s careers page.
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