Job Description
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 engine manufacturing department's mission is to product high performing products & manufacturing systems by continuously innovating on cost quality and lead time. Through cross-functional collaboration high levels of accountability and a focus on safety we support the Terran R program. We are responsible for providing design feedback on new hardware iterations developing new manufacturing methods and systems and ultimately building engine and vehicle hardware for testing prior to our first launch. Our team's highlights from the last 6 months include the MDC of the first Aeon-R engine completing thousands of hours of PBF printing building and testing over 50 valves of 26 different iterations and implementing large scale process improvements along the way.
About the Role:
- Setup CNC Machinery including Multi-Axis Milling and Mill-Turn Turning centers.
- Operate CNC mills and lathes (multiple shifts) and ensure the production schedule is satisfied.
- Select and monitor tooling and fixturing to ensure all hardware is conforming when leaving the shop.
- Exercise a mindset of continued learning as you develop new skills towards programming and machining.
- Must be relentlessly curious and open minded to finding new solutions to new challenges.
- Able to grow with the team as new capabilities and demands evolve.
About You:
- 3+ years of experience setting up and operating CNC mills and lathes in a production environment.
- Must have experience working with manufacturing engineers in R&D or production settings.
- Must understand GD&T and how to interpret engineering drawings.
- Experience operating multi-axis CNC machines.
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience with programming CNC machines in ESPRIT is a plus.
- DMG Mori/CELOS experience is a plus.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation please contact us at [email protected].
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Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket Terran R 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.
Why Work With Us
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.
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