Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Mechanisms Long Beach, California

Senior Manufacturing Engineer, MechanismsLong Beach, CaliforniaAt 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. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation.Joining Relativity means becoming part of an environment 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. You'll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time.About the TeamThe Stage Manufacturing team turns design into reality, owning the build of Terran R's primary structures. Engineers and technicians work side by side, with deep collaboration and real‑time feedback, to shape how we build better and faster. With a manifest and a launch date, the team delivers on Terran R, solving challenges in real time, optimizing for scale, and constantly improving processes.About the RoleOwn major mechanized assemblies and their child components from design release through test and successful integration onto the Terran R launch vehicle.Drive the assembly's build and test effort through design integration, part sourcing, assembly sequencing, BOM development, work‑order creation, and specification authoring.Support workcenter development by considering assembly and test operations, safety, tooling, and capital equipment requirements.Provide hands‑on support to the shop floor and production personnel, resolving issues and offering upstream feedback to improve design for manufacturability.Analyze and disposition recurring manufacturing discrepancies and lead cross‑disciplinary teams on root‑cause analysis and corrective actions.Foster a culture of critical thinking and imaginative problem‑solving, mentoring other manufacturing engineers to support technical and professional development.About YouBS degree in aerospace, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering with 5+ years of experience building and testing hardware in a manufacturing environment.Extensive experience developing processes, authoring work instructions and/or test procedures for interdisciplinary mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic assemblies.Experience interfacing with design engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, planning, and production personnel.Extensive experience leading, executing, and managing large process and/or quality improvements with a broad scope of ownership.Ability to work autonomously with little supervision in a fast‑paced and ambiguous environment.Expert in at least two of the following: fastening and torquing operations, pneumatic and/or electromechanical assembly, electrical and/or pneumatic testing, tooling design and fabrication, potting processes, harness manufacturing, machining of complex products like gears.Nice to HavesNew‑product introduction experience of an aerospace hardware system into a manufacturing, test, and production system.Knowledge of rocket subsystems including structures, mechanisms, high‑pressure gas systems and/or avionics.Expert understanding of GD&T and drafting principles.Experience in capacity analyses, DFMEA/PFMEA, value‑stream mapping.CompensationHiring Range: $122,000 - $167,000 USD.Equal Employment OpportunityWe are an equal‑opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.#J-18808-Ljbffr