Staff Materials & Processes Engineer Structural Composites

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: 

• Research trade and select composite material and processes for structural applications
• Identify qualification envelopes form test plans and execute characterization campaigns
• 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 technology gaps
  • Laboratory staff to characterize materials and processes
  • Designers to support materials selection allowables development and analysis
  • Manufacturing engineering to improve processes troubleshoot issues and facilitate operations
  • Quality assurance to drive specification compliance and process audits
  • Product engineering to lead failure analyses and root cause and corrective action campaigns
  • Leadership to elevate risks and overcome roadblocks

About you:  

• Bachelor’s degree in materials science or engineering or related field
• 8+ years of experience relevant to the competencies listed below
• A strong 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 and team growth and development

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Experience with carbon fiber reinforced structural composite material and process systems
• Prior knowledge of structural composite characterization testing standards and processing
• Experience developing composite design allowables (e.g. CMH-17)
• Expertise in statistical experimental design and process control
• Leveling is flexible – please see other posting levels for expectations

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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