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SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft with the mission of enabling humans to become a multi-planetary species. It operates the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship launch vehicles, as well as the Starlink satellite internet constellation.
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Sr. Packaging Engineer - Thermal Materials, AI Satellites (Starmind) joins the Starmind team to develop hardware for a new constellation of satellites providing orbital AI inference and data center workloads. This role involves owning the full lifecycle of advanced packaging through board assembly process development, including requirements capture, material selection, prototyping, manufacturing, and failure analysis. The engineer will spearhead integrated thermal solutions using next-generation TIMs and manage equipment specification, qualification, and ramp while building supply chains for dies, packages, and components. Key technical skills include experience in microelectronics device research or manufacturing, materials science, mechanical engineering, and potentially MATLAB or JMP for data analysis. The role addresses the challenge of creating high-performance electronics capable of operating in extreme space environments by integrating thermal, material, and packaging engineering to support advanced on-orbit compute systems.