Senior Test Engineer – Pneumatic & Fluid Systems

Relativity Space, Inc.; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

PTO and sick leave policy

Parental leave

Job summary

Relativity Space in Long Beach seeks a Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer for Pneumatic Mechanisms & Fluid Assemblies to own development, validation, and refinement of test assets across mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems.

You will collaborate with design and manufacturing partners to execute efficient, reliable campaigns, drive test sequencing and tooling design, and lead investigations of test failures to enable manufacturability and scalability.

Qualifications

• BS degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing engineering or related discipline with 3+ years of experience building and testing hardware in a manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience authoring test procedures to build and validate mechanical, electrical and pneumatic assemblies.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with design engineering, manufacturing, and production teams to execute test procedures and lead investigations of test failures and anomalies.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, and managing large-scope test systems and process improvements with minimal oversight.
• Expert knowledge of safety standards, common test hazards and appropriate mitigations.
• Hands-on experience in at least two of the following: electromechanical or pneumatic assembly, electrical or pneumatic functional checkouts, integrated testing, leak checking, sensor checkouts, high-voltage systems (320V+), high-pressure pneumatic systems, or instrumentation and sensor setup.

Responsibilities

• Own the development, validation, and refinement of test assets and processes across mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems. Collaborate with design and manufacturing partners to ensure production testing campaigns are executed efficiently, reliably and scalable over time.
• Drive the technical execution of mechanisms and integrated assembly testing through design integration, test equipment/tooling design or sourcing, test sequencing, mBOM development, work order creation, test training, and specification authoring.
• Provide technical leadership in workcenter development, offering guidance on assembly and test operations, safety compliance, tooling, capital equipment in alignment with organizational objectives.
• Provide hands on support to the shop floor and production personnel, promptly addressing any test issues that arise and offering upstream feedback to drive design for manufacturability, testability or reparability.
• Analyze test data to evaluate assembly performance, identify recurring discrepancies, and lead cross-functional teams in root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with design, production, supply chain, and quality teams to ensure seamless execution of manufacturing test processes while maintaining alignment with organizational objectives.

Skills

Test procedures

Test equipment design

Cross-functional collaboration

Troubleshooting

Data analysis

Safety compliance

Education

BS in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing engineering or related discipline

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Multimeters

Pressure regulators

Flow meters

Instrumentation and sensor setup

Data acquisition systems

Job description

Relativity Space in Long Beach seeks a Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer for Pneumatic Mechanisms & Fluid Assemblies to own development, validation, and refinement of test assets across mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic systems.

You will collaborate with design and manufacturing partners to execute efficient, reliable campaigns, drive test sequencing and tooling design, and lead investigations of test failures to enable manufacturability and scalability.