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Description

You will own PECVD equipment for manufacturing silicon heterojunction solar cells at massive scale, ensuring tool availability, stability, and scaling to support Starlink's satellite constellation and Starship missions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering, materials science, or other STEM discipline
• 2+ years hands-on experience owning and maintaining CVD or PECVD equipment in high-volume semiconductor, solar, or manufacturing
• Experience handling flammable, toxic, corrosive, and/or hazardous chemicals and gases safely

Responsibilities

• Install, qualify, maintain, and improve high-throughput PECVD equipment for heterojunction silicon solar cell manufacturing
• Drive equipment reliability and uptime for high-volume production with minimal downtime
• Run experiments and analyze data to improve capacity, reduce tool variation, and enhance defect performance
• Develop preventive/predictive maintenance strategies, spare parts programs, and tool matching protocols
• Lead root cause analysis and corrective actions on equipment issues including vacuum, RF, gas delivery, and automation