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title: "Senior Thin Film Deposition Engineer"
company: "Solestial, Inc."
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/solestial-inc"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/solestial-inc-senior-thin-film-deposition-engineer-18a2b61c-73c6-4067-a4af-0cd0337d97d0"
apply_url: "https://jobs.lever.co/solestial/ed00b1d1-fb8f-43cb-9164-3f6cc87b710e"
workplace: onsite
location: "1121 West Warner Rd; Tempe, AZ 85284"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: senior
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-21T21:11:14.493Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-21T21:38:46.025Z
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# Senior Thin Film Deposition Engineer

**Solestial, Inc.** · 1121 West Warner Rd; Tempe, AZ 85284

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/solestial/ed00b1d1-fb8f-43cb-9164-3f6cc87b710e

## About the role

**The Company:**
Solestial is pioneering the future of space-based solar power by developing advanced solar technologies optimized for the harsh conditions of space. Our innovative, low-cost, and scalable solar arrays are engineered for next-generation satellites, spacecraft, and orbital infrastructure. We are driven by a mission to power the space economy and unlock limitless opportunities in orbit and beyond.
 
**The Role:**

As a** Senior Thin Film Deposition Engineer, **you will own and advance our thin film deposition processes, with a strong focus on **PVD and PECVD**. This role will be responsible for maintaining stable, repeatable deposition processes while also driving process development, optimization, and equipment modifications as we scale manufacturing.

This is a hands-on engineering role. The ideal candidate has deep experience with sputter deposition and understands the relationship between the **process, equipment, materials, and resulting film properties**. They should be comfortable troubleshooting from both a process and equipment perspective and working directly on deposition tools to keep them operating reliably.

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##### Your Mission

- Own and optimize PVD/PECVD processes.

- Develop and modify deposition processes to improve film performance, repeatability, yield, and throughput

- Monitor process performance and troubleshoot deposition issues, excursions, and variability

- Maintain deposition equipment from a process and engineering perspective, including hands-on troubleshooting and preventative maintenance

- Diagnose equipment-related issues involving vacuum systems, gas delivery, power supplies, targets, chambers, and other deposition system components

- Partner with engineering and manufacturing teams to keep deposition tools running reliably and minimize downtime

- Develop process recipes, operating parameters, and process controls

- Plan and execute experiments and DOEs to understand process windows and optimize performance

- Support modifications and upgrades to existing deposition equipment as manufacturing needs evolve

- Analyze process and equipment data to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for improvement

- Develop and maintain process documentation, specifications, work instructions, and equipment maintenance procedures

- Support the transition of new or modified deposition processes from development into production

##### What You Bring

- Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field; advanced degree a plus

- Significant hands-on experience with physical vapor deposition (PVD) and plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) processes and equipment

- Deep technical knowledge of thin film deposition, including process parameters, plasma behavior, vacuum systems, target/material interactions, and thin film properties

- Experience developing, optimizing, and troubleshooting thin film deposition processes in a manufacturing or production environment

- Hands-on experience maintaining, troubleshooting, and modifying PVD/sputtering equipment

- Strong understanding of vacuum equipment and components, including pumps, valves, pressure measurement, gas delivery, and related systems

- Experience using structured problem-solving, DOE, and data analysis to improve process performance

- Ability to independently troubleshoot complex issues that cross the boundary between process and equipment

- Comfortable working directly with production equipment in a fast-paced manufacturing environment

##### What Gives You an Edge

- Experience with thin film deposition for semiconductor, photovoltaic, aerospace, or other high-reliability applications

- Experience scaling deposition processes from R&D or development into manufacturing

- Experience with equipment upgrades, retrofits, or custom modifications

- Familiarity with SPC and manufacturing process controls

- Experience with additional vacuum deposition or thin film characterization techniques

##### Our Benefits

- Competitive salary

- Generous, high-quality medical, dental, and vision coverage on day one of employment

- 15 vacation days, 5 sick days, and 10 paid holidays annually - with an extended holiday break at year’s end

- 401K with employer match up to 4% of salary

- Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability and employer-sponsored life insurance

- Your work will literally go to space!

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