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Starlink Development Lead, Solar Ingot & Wafer

SpaceX· Materials Engineering - Starlink Mfg - BA
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Bastrop, TXfull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Development lead responsible for silicon ingot growth and wafering from trials to production, coordinating with OEMs, development, operations, quality, equipment, and suppliers; documentation, yield targets, and scheduling.

Responsibilities

  • 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 chemistry) and track KPIs such as kg/pull, wafer yield, kerf loss, downtime, scrap, and first-pass yield
  • Coordinate tool time, material readiness, operator coverage, fixtures, hot-zone parts, wires, slurry and coolant, crucibles, and other consumables with production, maintenance, quality, EHS, and supply chain
  • Track status, blockers, and results; escalate schedule, quality, or safety risks with options and owners; and give leadership concise updates
  • Collect trial data and support root cause on trial and early-production issues (ingot defects, saw marks, TTV, warp, stains, lifetime)
  • Own trial reports, work instructions, travelers, checklists, training notes, and revision control of recipes, fixtures, and consumable specs
  • Initiate and track ECOs and process changes, including training and first-article or first-lot verification before release
  • Partner with quality and metrology on incoming silicon, in-process checks, and outgoing wafer specs, and support vendor trials and incoming qualifications of new materials or tools
  • Lead pilot-to-production transfer (standard work, operator training, control and reaction plans), support the ramp until rate and quality are stable, and capture lessons learned
  • Enforce EHS requirements for high temperature, chemicals, slurry, wafer handling, lockout, PPE, and clean-area rules

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in materials science, chemistry, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or a STEM field
  • 5+ years in manufacturing process development or production coordination (semiconductor, PV, crystal growth, precision machining, or injection molding/process engineering strongly preferred)

Skills

Required:Ingot growth and wafering processesProcess development and DOE
Nice to have:MES and QMS familiarity

Benefits

  • (not explicitly listed in the provided description)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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