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Salary: USD 32.69 - 49.04 / hourly
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 Reliability team ensures quality is built into every stage of design and production, working directly with design, manufacturing, test, and launch teams to establish processes, controls, and inspections as the program scales from development into production.
This is a first-shift position (Monday–Friday, 5:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT) structured around a 50-hour workweek, including 10 guaranteed overtime hours each week. The role involves approximately 80% travel to supplier sites, both local and remote, to perform source inspections, conduct audits, and support supplier quality and compliance activities.
Key responsibilities include:
- Perform in-process and final inspections of PCBA and post-processing at onsite supplier facilities and provide part-time support to in-house manufacturing assembly
- Inspect solder joints, component placement, polarity, markings, conformal coating, cleanliness, and overall workmanship against drawings, specifications, and IPC-A-610
- Use microscopes and standard electronic inspection equipment to identify workmanship defects and nonconformances
- Maintain detailed inspection records and document nonconformances
- Stay current with industry standards, regulations, and best practices related to avionics quality assurance and inspection processes
- Review purchase orders, certificates of conformance, test reports, material traceability, First Article Inspection (FAI), and shipping documentation for accuracy
- Verify that parts match purchase orders, engineering blueprints, and bills of materials
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on PCBA, electronics, SMT, or high-reliability electronic assembly inspection experience as an electronics inspector in a manufacturing environment, preferably in a quality function
- Ability to travel 50–80%
- Capable of working independently without supervision
- Familiar with electronics assembly and soldering standards such as IPC-A-610 and J-STD-001 Class 3
- Familiar with staking, underfill, and conformal coating standards such as IPC-610 Class 3 and NASA-STD-8739.1
- High level of attention to detail for conducting thorough inspections and ensuring compliance with quality standards and regulations
Nice to haves (not required):
- Well-versed in process development and first-time quality efforts
- Highly organized and able to provide structure and direction to the previously undefined
- Familiarity with CofCs, FAI, and source inspection documentation
- Certified or previously certified in NASA-STD-8739.1 and IPC-A-610 or J-STD-001
