PBF Additive Manufacturing Engineer II

Relativity; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Generous PTO / sick leave

Parental leave

Learning and development stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space in California is seeking a PBF Development Engineer to own build preparation, print programming strategy, manufacturing planning, and technical execution for assigned PBF hardware or product groups.

You will collaborate with design, materials, quality, and process engineering to improve printability, maintain controlled documentation, lead nonconformance investigations, and drive robust, repeatable AM processes that scale with flight hardware.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a relevant engineering field.
• Minimum 2+ years in metal additive manufacturing or related aerospace hardware.
• Experience with LPBF and DfAM fundamentals is required.
• Hands-on with work orders and non-conformance resolution preferred.
• Familiarity with AM tools such as EOSprint/Magics/3dxpert is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own build preparation, print programming strategy, manufacturing planning, and technical execution for assigned PBF hardware or product groups
• Provide feedback to design team on printability, DfAM improvements, part consolidation opportunities, and manufacturability trade-offs
• Develop and maintain controlled PBF process documentation, build standards, work instructions, verification plans, and engineering decision records
• Partner with materials engineering to understand qualification requirements, proposed process changes, and the evidence needed to verify and release those changes
• Lead nonconformance investigations for assigned hardware, including data review, root-cause hypotheses, risk assessment, corrective action recommendations, and clear technical summaries
• Identify recurring NCs and implement preventive actions in collaboration with process engineering, quality, and design
• Coordinate with PBF process engineering, machine owners, inspection, quality, design, post-processing, machining, and program teams to remove blockers and protect hardware delivery
• Evaluate process changes involving parameters, scan strategy, support design, build layout, powder state, machine configuration, heat treatment, depowdering, or inspection criteria
• Use production and quality data to identify trends such as material failures, machine errors, queue bottlenecks, and documentation gaps
• Create dashboards, checklists, templates, or standard work that improve team throughput, quality, and reproducibility
• Mentor interns or newer engineers in PBF fundamentals, documentation quality, problem solving, and cross-functional communication
• Represent PBF Development Engineering in technical reviews, risk discussions, readiness reviews, and partner-team meetings

Skills

2+ years in metal additive manufacture

LPBF process knowledge

DfAM fundamentals

Work orders and instruction creation

Data interpretation from production/QA

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

EOSprint

Magics

3dxpert

Flow

Siemens NX

Solidworks

Job description

Relativity Space in California is seeking a PBF Development Engineer to own build preparation, print programming strategy, manufacturing planning, and technical execution for assigned PBF hardware or product groups.

You will collaborate with design, materials, quality, and process engineering to improve printability, maintain controlled documentation, lead nonconformance investigations, and drive robust, repeatable AM processes that scale with flight hardware.