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Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Stage Forming

Relativity SpaceLong Beach🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

Accelerate your career at the forefront of aerospace innovation by leading the manufacturing of the groundbreaking Terran R vehicle, where you will enjoy the perfect balance of technical autonomy and flexible hybrid work. This role is ideal for an ambitious engineer who thrives on solving complex, first-of-their-kind challenges and wants to make a tangible impact by shaping both the product and the production process. Seize this unique opportunity to define the future of space travel and apply today to join a team where your expertise will directly fuel the next generation of launch technology.

Quick overview

Salary$122k/yr
SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationLong Beach, United States
Design for ManufacturingProcess Improvement

Job description

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.

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.

About the Team:

The Stage Manufacturing team turns design into reality, owning the build of Terran R’s primary structures. This isn’t about turning the same bolt every day; it’s about building the systems to build the rocket. Engineers and technicians work side by side, with deep collaboration and real-time feedback, to shape how we build better and faster. With a manifest and a launch date, it’s up to the team to deliver on Terran R: solving challenges in real time, optimizing for scale, and constantly improving processes. As the vehicle evolves, so will the factory, with opportunities to apply automation, machine learning, and advanced technologies. What we build here sets the blueprint for the future of scaled launch.

About the Role:

  • Own Forming operations within the work center, being responsible for delivery of all formed products and improving both roll forming and press brake process
  • Bring online a press brake work center and lead the development effort for the company to be capable of forming up to 20’ sheets of material for our rocket primary structure
  • Create work instructions, specifications, and best practices across multiple high-fidelity processes
  • Help standardize processes across the manufacturing team
  • Support the shop floor through live issue resolution and provide upstream feedback as we innovate the next generation of manufacturing technology
  • Provide Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during the development phase and through the first prototype and flight builds

About You:

  • Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline
  • 4+ years progressive and related experience required
  • A history of improving manufacturing processes and the ability to independently identify and lead development projects needed to meet processing requirements
  • Strong engineering fundamentals in process improvement, forming, metallic processing, mechanics of materials
  • Deep knowledge of common metallic manufacturing processes, tools, inspection methods and GD&T
  • 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 3D & 2D design/drafting skills per ASME Y14.5M (NX preferred)

Nice to have, but not required:

  • Direct experience with roll forming and press brake forming aluminum alloys
  • New product introduction of an aerospace hardware system into a manufacturing, test, and production system with proven success
  • Experience in managing projects in a fast-paced environment

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.

Hiring Range:
$122,000—$182,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@relativityspace.com.

Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.

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