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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 culture emphasizing autonomy, ownership, and impact at every level.
The Materials and NDE (Non-Destructive Evaluation) team plays a central role in enabling Terran R to fly, re-fly, and scale. The team develops, characterizes, and inspects materials and processes across all parts of the vehicle, from welding and additive manufacturing to advanced composites. Engineers work at the intersection of innovation and execution, balancing performance and reliability with cost, quality, and schedule.
As a Materials & Processes Engineer I, you will:
- Own materials and processes for reusable Terran R products, engineering disciplines, and materials
- Qualify materials and products for flight and reuse
- Develop, implement, and maintain technical specifications and engineering standards
- Drive statistically-driven experimental design and process improvement campaigns
- Interface with materials engineering staff to identify and fill critical materials and technology gaps
- Work with laboratory staff to characterize materials and processes
- Collaborate with design engineers on product materials selection, allowables development, analysis, qualification, flight, failure analysis, and reuse
- Partner with manufacturing engineers to reduce cost and rate while maintaining needed performance
- Facilitate specification compliance validation with quality assurance
- Engage with Relativity and customer fracture control boards to achieve vehicle reuse
- Elevate risks and power through roadblocks with company leadership
This role offers broad exposure across products, systems, and disciplines, with opportunities to shape how the company designs and develops for reuse. You'll work in a fast-paced environment on constantly iterating Terran R products and processes, driving big impact on critical program needs as manufacturing rate ramps and reuse is achieved.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in materials science or engineering, or related field
- 1+ years of relevant materials engineering experience (leveling is flexible and will be adjusted for candidates with more experience)
- Experience with general M&P activities, such as material selection, qualification, damage tolerance, inspections, risk assessments, and failure analysis
- Core commitment to accountability, collaboration, and execution
- Desire to establish and foster strong interdisciplinary relationships across the company
- Authentic, introspective, and inclusive mindset towards technical, interpersonal, team growth, and development
- Passion to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment on constantly iterating products and processes
**Nice to haves (not required):**
- Demonstrated ownership, impact, and detail-oriented work with aerospace products and their materials and processes
- Experience with M&P activities such as material selection, qualification, damage tolerance, corrosion, hardware inspections, risk assessments, non-destructive evaluation, fracture control, and failure analysis
- Knowledge through hands-on experience of metallic special processes such as additive manufacturing, casting, forging, rolling, extrusions, heat treating, welding, coatings, passivation, and refurbishment
- Knowledge through hands-on experience with aerospace metallics (aluminum, steel, nickel, and titanium alloys) and non-metallics (structural composites, adhesives, sealants, TPS, coatings)
- Experience with statistical experimental design and data analysis
