Senior Process Engineer, PBF Manufacturing
Long Beach, CaliforniaFull-TimeSeniorSoftware Engineering
Intro
- At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
- Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. 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. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. 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. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
- The Powder Bed Fusion manufacturing team develops, creates, and operates the most advanced additive manufacturing technologies in the world. This best-in-class team makes sure that the infrastructure, materials, tools, and equipment are in place for us to rapidly iterate and print. The Powder-Based manufacturing team was crucial to manufacturing Aeon-1 for first launch and now are developing and demonstrating groundbreaking technologies, design, and approaches for Aeon-R.
About the Role
- Support the installation, commissioning, and operation of additive post processing manufacturing equipment
- Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, work instructions, checklists, and safety protocols for additive manufacturing, including post processing equipment
- Be responsible for establishing of process flow to meet production rate and quality goals
- Communicate roadblocks to team leaders and technicians promptly to appropriately react, contain, and recover
- Track machine utilization and drive reductions in planned and unplanned downtime
- Perform manufacturing ROI and cost trade analysis optimizing machine capital and process improvements
- Develop and implement tooling and statistical process control into production processes to further improve reliability and reduce cost and lead time
About You
- BS Degree in Engineering (or relevant technical discipline)
- 5+ years of experience with process engineering in a manufacturing environment
- Experience working with powder bed fusion metal printing
- Experience working in a fast-paced, iterative design environment
- Experience working within ISO AS9100/ISO9000, medical device manufacturing environment, or similar
Nice to haves, but not required:
- Six-Sigma Greenbelt, SPC, & DOE
- Knowledge of lean manufacturing practices, such as, 5S or Six Sigma
- At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
