Staff Mechanical Engineer Tooling

About the Team: 

The Tooling and Factory Automation team sits at the intersection of design manufacturing and automation making everything from large-scale structural fixtures to small tools that directly enable Terran R’s production. As a design group embedded within the manufacturing organization we dig deep into the needs of our internal partners to understand root problems propose solutions and deliver hardware to help 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 of Terran R at existing and future facilities. You’ll have the autonomy to make decisions field solutions and see them in action on the factory floor. Ultimately you’re not just designing tools or automated processes; you’re defining how rockets and factories get built.

About the Role:

The Mechanical Design Engineers are responsible for the design and development of tools and factory automation equipment that support manufacturing. The Mechanical Engineering team works closely with Design and Manufacturing turning top-level requirements and concepts into functional delivered equipment. The Mechanical Design Engineering team brings a high level of innovation and ingenuity into the design process as they are tasked with building out a highly automated production facility. 

• Develop high quality development and production tooling and automation solutions for the Terran vehicle and Aeon engine programs
• Capable of integrating concepts and principles of mechanical design and analysis of several different projects in a fast-paced environment - projects will vary in size and scale
• Ability to interpret and apply sound design and drafting standards (ASME Y14.5) in creating tooling drawing definitions
• Handle a wide range of technical problems and familiar with all types of material handling assembly fixtures off-loaders rotisseries test fixtures structural weldments environmental chambers and custom machines
• Close collaboration with component designers manufacturing engineers and integration engineering to achieve the best possible 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 

About You:  

• Bachelor of Science degree in manufacturing engineering mechanical engineering or equivalent 
• 10+ 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 but not required:  

• 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.

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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