Senior Materials & Processes Engineer Turbomachinery

About the Team:  

The Materials and NDE (Non-Destructive Evaluation) team plays a central role in enabling Terran R to fly re-fly and scale: developing characterizing and inspecting materials and processes across all parts of the vehicle. From welding and additive manufacturing to advanced composites the team works at the intersection of innovation and execution balancing performance and reliability with cost quality and schedule. As we move toward first flight and beyond the challenges become more exciting offering opportunities to shape how we design and develop for re-use. With ownership across products systems and disciplines engineers gain broad exposure and drive key decisions across design manufacturing and operations.

About the Role: 

• Be the M&P owner of reusable Liquid Propulsion Turbomachinery Products Materials Systems and Disciplines
• Qualify turbomachinery materials and products for flight + 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 define and fill critical turbomachinery technology gaps
• Laboratory staff to characterize materials and processes
• Design Engineers for product materials selection allowables development analysis qualification flight and reuse
• Manufacturing Engineers to reduce cost + rate while maintaining needed performance for turbomachinery products
• Quality assurance to facilitate specification compliance validation
• Propulsion Engineers to perform failure analysis root cause and corrective action campaigns when turbomachinery parts fail in service
• Relativity + Customer Fracture Control Boards to achieve vehicle reuse
• Company Leadership to elevate risks and power through roadblocks

About You:  

• Bachelor’s degree in materials science or engineering or related field
• 5+ years of relevant turbomachinery materials experience
• Leveling is flexible and will be adjusted for candidates with more experience
• Experience with general propulsion hardware M&P activities such as material selection qualification damage tolerance inspections risk assessments and failure analysis
• Experience performing material and part qualifications for either AM laser powder bed fusion systems or traditional material forming (wrought forgings castings)
• A core commitment to accountability collaboration and execution
• A desire to establish and foster strong interdisciplinary relationships across the company
• An 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 turbomachinery products + processes driving big impact on critical program needs as we ramp manufacturing rate + achieve reuse

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Deep understanding of turbomachinery within reusable aerospace or rocket engines and all associated materials challenges
• Expertise in nickel ferrous aluminum or titanium alloy systems
• Metallic additive manufacturing M&P expertise with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF)
• Metallic wrought forging or casting M&P expertise
• Metallic fusion welding M&P expertise in Laser Welding EBW GTAW GMAW etc.
• Knowledge of surface modification processes and coatings relevant to inhibit surface damage + corrosion of reusable turbomachinery parts
• Statistical experimental design and design allowable calculation methodology expertise

What We Do

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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