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Materials Engineer, Polymers (Starlink)

SpaceX· Materials Engineering - Starlink Materials
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Bastrop, TXFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Polymers-focused Materials Engineer to develop, test, and scale polymeric materials for Starlink products, collaborating with design and manufacturing to ensure cost-effective, reliable materials and successful production transfers.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for the development, test and performance evaluation of polymeric materials used across various Starlink products
  • Support polymer selection and implementation by collaborating with design engineers to establish required design inputs for ensuring a cost-effective and reliable mass consumer electronic
  • Collaborate with other engineers, subject matter experts, and technicians to solve complex material and processing challenges on our current and next generation products
  • Lead successful scale-up from prototype to production of relevant injection molded parts
  • Engage in root cause failure investigations as a subject matter expert for failure mechanisms

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in materials science or an engineering discipline
  • 1+ years of experience with characterizing, testing, and evaluating the performance of thermoplastics, elastomers, and/or adhesives

Skills

Required:Materials characterizationPolymer processing
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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