Relativity Space

Manager, Stage Materials & Processes Engineering

Long Beach, California

Sponsorship not specified$150k-$224kDetected 6 days ago

Product ManagementSupply ChainAvionicsExperimental DesignLeadership

About the role

Fight to keep Terran-R on track through manufacturing dispositions, appropriate risk mitigation, and root cause/corrective action
Set the bar for both leadership and technical excellence across the team
Foster an empathetic, supportive, accountable, honest, and communicative team culture

Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity.
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.
Build, lead, and develop the Stage Materials and Processes Engineering team as the accountable M&P leader for development, design, manufacturing, and reuse of Terran R stage systems
Collaborate with key partner teams across the product lifecycle, including Vehicle Engineering, our Materials Lab, Weld Development, NDE, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain

Bachelor's degree in materials science or engineering, or related field
6+ years of relevant materials & process engineering experience
Proficiency in general materials and processes activities such as M&P qualification, failure analysis, experimental design, and allowables development
Nice to haves but not required:
Experience with launch vehicle stage products (primary structures, mechanisms, fluid systems, avionics)
Experience with launch vehicle materials and processes (aluminum, nickel-based, stainless steel, friction stir welding, arc fusion welding, structural composites, etc.)
Experience with stage M&P engineering disciplines (fatigue and damage tolerance, corrosion, tribology, oxygen compatibility, etc.)

Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!
$150,000 - $224,000 USD
Support annual operating plan and organizational activities (budget, headcount, staffing)

Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!
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.
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We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The Materials & NDE Engineering team is responsible for the development, characterization, and inspection of materials across the Terran R launch vehicle.
We specialize in rapid implementation of material systems through robust internal testing capabilities and first principles driven qualification approaches.
We have recently made our first primary structure, supported introduction of next generation powder additive alloys in the Aeon-R engine, and developed 100% in-cell NDE inspection capabilities for WAAM manufactured hardware.
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
At Relativity Space, we're building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.

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

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