Senior Vehicle Manufacturing Engineer, Primary Structures

Sr. Vehicle Manufacturing Engineer, Primary Structures

Long Beach, California

At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit.

About the Team:

The Manufacturing Engineering team owns all process development, fabrication strategy, and production equipment for Terran R, our next generation, reusable rocket. We have a wide variety of responsibilities – from factory floor layout to developing complex tooling for novel processes, and interfacing with our vehicle engineering team to heavily influence design of the rocket.

About the Role:

• Own a major primary structure assembly station for Terran R, as well as all associated flight parts and assembly processes, defining operational strategies and working to build upon existing methods.
• Support the shop floor through live issue resolution and provide upstream feedback as we innovate the next generation of manufacturing technology.
• Generate high quality work instructions, specifications, and best practices across multiple high-fidelity processes.
• Generate build orders and schedules, and come up with creative ways to stay on track.
• Support conceptual and detailed design of major tooling assemblies alongside tooling engineering. Support procurement, commissioning, and initial trial builds.
• Provide Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during the development phase and through the first prototype and flight builds.

About You:

• BS or MS degree in mechanical, manufacturing, aerospace, or other relevant engineering discipline with 5+ years of related experience.
• Extensive experience authoring work instructions and resolving complex manufacturing challenges.
• Mastery of GD&T and drafting principles, expert familiarity with CAD software such as NX.
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment, extremely detail oriented and organized.
• Expert level knowledge of at least 2 of the following: Welding, machining, precision drilling, mechanical fastening, tool design, etc.

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience designing or using tooling for manufacturing large metallic structures.
• Experience with new process introduction in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success with improving takt time in a production process.

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

Hiring Range:

$130,000 - $166,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.

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