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Salary: USD 90,000 - 136,000 / annual
Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. The Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting growing demand for launch capacity. The company is developing a rocket, factory, and business from the ground up, with a focus on autonomy, ownership, and impact at every level.
The Stage Manufacturing team turns design into reality, owning the build of Terran R's primary structures. This role is not about repetitive tasks but 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 the company builds better and faster.
In this Manufacturing Engineer I role, you will own Forming operations within the work center, responsible for delivery of all formed products and improving both roll forming and press brake processes. You will bring online a press brake work center and lead the development effort for the company to be capable of forming up to 20-foot sheets of material for the rocket's primary structure. You will create work instructions, specifications, and best practices across multiple high-fidelity processes, help standardize processes across the manufacturing team, and support the shop floor through live issue resolution. You will provide upstream feedback as the company innovates the next generation of manufacturing technology and deliver Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during development, prototype, and flight builds.
With a manifest and launch date, the team must deliver on Terran R by 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.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in manufacturing, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline
- 1+ years progressive and related experience required, including internship experience
- History of improving manufacturing processes and ability to independently identify and lead development projects needed to meet processing requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals in process improvement, forming, metallic processing, and mechanics of materials
- Deep knowledge of common metallic manufacturing processes, tools, inspection methods, and GD&T
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to interface with engineering and manufacturing groups to understand process constraints and provide design inputs for improved manufacturability
- Strong 3D and 2D design/drafting skills per ASME Y14.5M (NX preferred)
**Nice to have:**
- Direct experience with roll forming and press brake forming aluminum alloys
- New product introduction of aerospace hardware system into manufacturing, test, and production system with proven success
- Experience managing projects in fast-paced environment
