Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Rocket Structures

Relativity Space, Inc.; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Generous PTO and sick leave

Learning and development stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space, Inc. in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer for the Primary Structures team.

The role focuses on providing design-for-manufacturing feedback during development, collaborating with design, manufacturing, reliability, and vendors to accelerate progress. You will cover shop-floor assembly work, drive cross-center process improvements, and help standardize high-fidelity manufacturing instructions as Terran R evolves.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, aeronautical, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline.
• 5+ years progressive and related experience required.
• Strong history of supporting complicated assembly builds and capable of making risk decisions on a regular basis to disposition issues during build and keep production moving.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with engineering and manufacturing groups to understand process constraints and provide design inputs for improved manufacturability.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in statics, mechanics of materials, process improvement/factory design, fastening and joining, machining.
• Expert knowledge of common drilling and trim ops, other manufacturing processes, tools, inspection methods and GD&T.

Responsibilities

• Provide Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during the development phase and through the first prototype and flight builds.
• Collaborate closely with a diverse team of engineers specializing in design, manufacturing, and reliability, as well as internal production teams and external vendors, leveraging their collective expertise to drive progress.
• Cover the shop floor for all primary structure work center assembly work, clearing barriers and keeping production moving.
• Champion process improvements across multiple work centers to improve assembly operations and incorporate feedback and learnings from the first Terran R build
• Create work instructions, specifications, and best practices across multiple high-fidelity processes. Help standardize processes across the manufacturing team

Skills

Statics fundamentals

Mechanics of materials

Process improvement

Factory design

Fastening & joining

Machining

Drilling & trim ops

GD&T knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, aeronautical, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline

Job description

Relativity Space, Inc. in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Engineer for the Primary Structures team.

The role focuses on providing design-for-manufacturing feedback during development, collaborating with design, manufacturing, reliability, and vendors to accelerate progress. You will cover shop-floor assembly work, drive cross-center process improvements, and help standardize high-fidelity manufacturing instructions as Terran R evolves.