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Salary: USD 104,000 - 156,000 / 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, and the company is scaling production through advanced manufacturing and factory automation.
The Tooling and Factory Automation team sits at the intersection of design, manufacturing, and automation. This team designs and delivers everything from large-scale structural fixtures to specialized tools that directly enable Terran R's production. As a design group embedded within the manufacturing organization, the team works closely with internal partners to understand root problems, propose solutions, and deliver hardware that helps build faster, scale smarter, and work better. The team is also at the forefront of Relativity's growing factory automation efforts, an increasingly critical part of scaling production at existing and future facilities.
As a Tooling Mechanical Engineer II, you will be responsible for the design and development of tools and factory automation equipment that support manufacturing. You will work closely with Design and Manufacturing teams, turning top-level requirements and concepts into functional delivered equipment. Key responsibilities include:
• Develop high-quality development and production tooling and automation solutions for the Terran vehicle and Aeon engine programs
• Integrate concepts and principles of mechanical design and analysis across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, handling projects that vary in size and scale
• Interpret and apply sound design and drafting standards (ASME Y14.5) in creating tooling drawing definitions
• Handle a wide range of technical problems involving material handling, assembly fixtures, off-loaders, rotisseries, test fixtures, structural weldments, environmental chambers, and custom machines
• Collaborate closely with component designers, manufacturing engineers, and integration engineering to achieve optimal cradle-to-grave metrics (safety, cost, quality, cycle time, delivery, reliability, life, and maintenance/refurbishment)
• Manage projects including vendor selection, fabrication, inspection, equipment installation, and commissioning of tooling
You will have autonomy to make decisions, field solutions, and see them in action on the factory floor. You're not just designing tools or automated processes; you're defining how rockets and factories get built.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor of Science degree in manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, or equivalent
• 2+ years of work or project experience with design, build, and commissioning of tooling and fixtures for manufacturing, assembly, and test
• Experience using CAD and FEA-based analysis software (NX and ANSYS Workbench preferred) for structural applications
• Experience in full-cycle project completion
• Experience in strategic buildout and project management of tooling supporting production
NICE TO HAVES:
• Strong expertise in design for manufacturability and design for assembly, including experience taking products from prototype design to production
• Solid understanding of common manufacturing materials, GD&T, and tolerance/stack-up analysis
• Solid understanding of common manufacturing processes and machines including mills, lathes, welding, sheet-metal bending, lifting/rigging, assembly, inspection, etc.
• Experience with custom machine design: motors, actuators, linear rails/actuators, pneumatics, bearings, etc.
