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Propulsion Manufacturing Engineer II, Valves

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At Relativity Space, we're building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that's just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

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Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven't been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you're in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you'll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we're writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it's early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

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About the Team:

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The Engine Manufacturing team is dedicated to delivering high-performance engines and advancing innovative manufacturing systems that continuously improve cost, quality, and lead time. You're not just executing on designs; you actively provide input that shapes new hardware iterations and regularly interface with engineers to make critical decisions for the Aeon R program. Having successfully developed and refined processes for our initial development engines, the team is now focused on producing flight engines at rate for Terran R's aggressive launch manifest.

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About the Role:

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  • Have end-to-end hardware manufacturing ownership of Terran R valves.
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  • Create manufacturing work instructions.
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  • Partner with design engineering to lead development strategy for hardware.
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  • Lead manufacturing and production strategy for hardware.
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  • Design tooling and fixtures for assembly and test.
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  • Collaborate with design engineers, test engineers, technicians, and internal machine shop for hardware development, manufacturing, test, and scalability for high volume production.
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  • Support component testing through development, qualification, and acceptance.
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About You:

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  • Bachelor's degree in technical discipline
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  • Minimum of 2+ years of building, manufacturing, testing, or troubleshooting hardware in a manufacturing environment
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  • Hands-on experience with hardware
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  • Experience interfacing with design engineering, manufacturing, and production personnel
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  • Experience authoring work instructions to build complex assemblies
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  • Experience applying engineering fundamentals in fluids, thermal, and mechanical
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Nice to haves but not required:

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  • Aerospace valve design or fluid system design or build experience
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  • Experience transitioning products from development to high volume production
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  • Experience working in a propulsion development program
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  • Experience with additive manufacturing and machining
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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.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

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Hiring Range:$112,000—$143,000 USDn

We are an equal opportunity employer and value at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of , , , , , , , marital status, veteran status, or status.