Staff Avionics Materials & Processes Engineer — Flight & Reuse

Relativity Space; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity Space in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Staff Materials & Processes Engineer for Avionics to own materials and processes for Terran-R avionics hardware. You will qualify materials for flight, develop specs, and drive process improvements.

You will collaborate with materials, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure cost, reliability, and reuse targets are met as we ramp production.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in materials science or engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of relevant avionics materials and processes experience.
• Experience with general avionics M&P activities: material selection, process development, qualification, damage tolerance, inspections, risk assessments, and failure analysis.
• Commitment to accountability, collaboration and execution.
• Desire to establish interdisciplinary relationships across the company.
• Inclusive mindset towards technical, interpersonal, team growth and development.
• Passion to work in a fast-paced environment iterating avionics products and processes with impact.

Responsibilities

• Be the cognizant M&P engineer of Terran-R avionics hardware.
• Qualify avionics materials and processes for flight and reuse.
• Develop, implement, and maintain technical specs and engineering standards.
• Drive statistically-driven experimental design and process improvement campaigns.
• Interface with materials engineers to identify critical technology gaps.
• Interface with laboratory staff to characterize materials and processes.
• Interface with avionics responsible engineers for design, qualification and failure analysis.
• Work with process and manufacturing engineers to develop processes and enable cost and rate while maintaining performance.

Skills

Avionics materials

Process development

Qualification

Risk assessment

Failure analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in materials science or engineering

Tools

PCB assembly processes

Job description

Relativity Space in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Staff Materials & Processes Engineer for Avionics to own materials and processes for Terran-R avionics hardware. You will qualify materials for flight, develop specs, and drive process improvements.

You will collaborate with materials, manufacturing, and quality teams to ensure cost, reliability, and reuse targets are met as we ramp production.