Relativity Space Careers In Los Angeles

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Develop, validate and improve in-house and external manufacturing processes capable of scaling to meet future Terran 1 launch vehicle demand. Work with design engineers to develop, evaluate, and improve designs and manufacturing methods using knowledge of material properties, machinability, welding, assembly methods, and quality control standards. Resolve manufacturing challenges or issues by implementing root cause corrective actions. Create and maintain hardware build schedules. Identify, plan, prioritize, and/or design the tooling required to achieve the desired production demand. Work closely with external parts and process vendors to design and build parts designed for manufacturability, utilizing knowledge of additive manufacturing where beneficial.

Develop in-house and supplier processes capable of scaling to meet future Terran 1 launch vehicle demand. Generate and release additive process specifications to control product quality. Establish build qualification and product acceptance criteria. Implement in-process monitoring systems to screen process anomalies and build defects. Analyze results from downstream fabrication and testing operations to inform process improvements. Provide design for additive manufacturing (DFAM) feedback and guidance to component owners and designers. Develop and maintain mechanical testing databases to inform design allowable material properties.

Ideally, you should have come from a fast-paced production environment and has demonstrated strategic planning and tactical execution at an innovative company. You are someone who thrives in ambiguity, is able to lead their own projects into completion, and managed teams of varying sizes to complete difficult projects while collaborating effectively with other key groups.

The ideal candidate expected to have knowledge in the development of a robust, high power multi-cell battery pack for a high vibe and shock environment with a demanding thermal range. The candidate will provide technical expertise in either the mechanical or electrical design and analysis. Thy should have experience with potential failure modes and as well as insight into how to mitigate such risks, particularly the prevention cell-to-cell fault propagation. In addition to design experience, candidate should have gone through the qualification and production process for low volume manufacturing and should have experience working with suppliers and other external resources.

Team and Role Overview The Legal team identifies and manages risk across Relativity to ensure that the company is adequately protected through its rapid growth. The Paralegal will be an integral member of the Legal team, recommending and implementing best practices to grow and scale the Legal practice. This role will initially report to the General Counsel. In your role, you will be responsible for: Contracts & NDAs: Researching, recommending

Relativity is looking for a talented software engineer to join a rapidly growing space startup. As a member of the Integrated Software team, you will help develop mission critical software for control of the rocket, ground system software for vehicle interaction, and sophisticated software simulations for testing.

To be successful in this role, you need to have a commitment to quality and the discipline required to achieve it. You will set the tone for how procedures and work orders are written, how problems on the floor are addressed, and how test operations are run on the vehicle. You will be a trail blazer for the company, so you need to be very self-motivated and be able to influence and get buy in from engineers and technicians to implement your plans. You will need to be comfortable with desk work such as writing work instructions and analyzing test data as well as hands on work setting up work cells, assembling hardware and running test operations. You should be comfortable operating and troubleshooting complicated systems comprised of mechanical hardware, electronic hardware and software.

Define thermal environments for Terran 1 systems, components, and payloads using empirical, experimental, and analytical approaches as required. Work with a small engineering team to design thermal and fluid systems from conceptual design through flight. Build analysis tools that enable Relativity’s vision of iterating full vehicle designs in 60 days. Guide and mentor responsible hardware engineers to ensure that subsystems meet requirements.

We are looking for a Software Engineer - Manufacturing Systems to join our growing team at our headquarters in Long Beach. In this role, you will own the software systems and solutions supporting manufacturing, providing input to and/or making decisions about systems architecture, development methodology and tools, development scope and prioritization as well as implementation timelines. You will be responsible for hands-on development, including databases, business logic, user interfaces as well as interfaces to other business systems i.e. PLM and/or ERP. 

As a Launch Mechanical Engineer, you will be at the forefront of creating a world class orbital launch site. In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to lead projects into completion. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with other key groups. Pressure around timelines, cost, and quality unleash the best in you, while finding creative ways to optimize across trade-offs. This role requires the highest attention to detail, while being able to abstract from day-to-day challenges while ensuring alignment on high-level objectives. Excellent judgement and analytical skills are a must, as well as a high degree of professional ethics and integrity. You bring curiosity for our unique technology and our production processes and are eager to develop a next generation launch site.

Your main objective will be to identify, develop and qualify the NDT methods and programs necessary for producing orbital class launch vehicles using Relativity’s 3D printing technology. You will develop inspection processes and acceptance criteria by balancing your in-depth knowledge of industry standards with empirical methods for our unique inspection needs. An excellent understanding of radiographic, ultrasonic and penetrant inspection techniques is necessary, preferably with additive manufactured materials. You will be responsible for selecting the best technique for a given application. You will interpret results and advise production and manufacturing engineers as well as advise our software and computer vision engineers to integrate NDT systems into our Stargate-class 3D printers for in-process monitoring of our printing processes.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be equally at home working from your desk or in the test yard. Some days you will be working on the test stands to solve integration or activation problems, and other days you will be designing new systems for upcoming test campaigns. You should be nimble and scrappy, but able with a constant eye to safety and quality. The test team frequently shifts priorities and redistributes work among our teammates. You should be flexible and able to work in a very dynamic environment. You should be able to work independently, but willing to jump in wherever help is needed. The most successful candidates have a hunger to continually learn new skills and are not afraid to give and receive constructive feedback.

Relativity seeks a highly talented fluid systems design engineer to help achieve our ambitious goal of launching a 3D printed rocket. The successful candidate will demonstrate an excellent understanding of fluid/mechanical systems and skill in designing the physical layout of those systems in CAD. This position is ideal for mechanical/aerospace engineers looking to make a broad impact in a small, high-performance team.

As the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Program Manager, you will report to the VP of People and will have high visibility across all departments within the company. On a day to day, you will design and implement company-wide DEI strategies and programs, driving meaningful results against DEI goals. You will also work closely with the executive team such as the CEO, CTO, and other company leaders in building and driving an inclusive workplace that is representative of the humankind and wonder that Relativity strives to build at its company and to inspire in future generations.   

An undergraduate or graduate degree in electrical engineering or comparable and 5+ years (BS) or 3+ years (MS/PhD) relevant experience. Demonstrated experience developing high performance, high power (1KW or greater) motor controller from initial requirement capture, through conceptual design, to production and deployment.  Worked with high voltage (200V+) power systems. Experience developing avionics for extreme environments. Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams. Understanding of BLDC (3 phase) motors and their control algorithms. Schematic Capture and Layout experience.

Most of your time will be spent operating as an independent contributor searching for publicly available data and using it to create market intelligence to support sales and proposal efforts. You will also spend time developing pricing for unique engineering services requested by our customers. At the end of the day, you are a highly analytical and independent person with high analytical aptitude—relentless in finding the right solutions. The work we have will require your capability to strategize while communicating to a wide audience (oral and written forms).

The mission of a Senior Propulsion Design Engineer is to design and develop key components of the Aeon Propulsion System. You will be responsible for the full product lifecycle management of the components from initial concept through detailed design, manufacture, and test. Example components are the Main Injector, Quad Pod, TVC and Gimbal System, and Heat Exchangers. You will leverage the power of 3D printing and topology optimization to dramatically reduce the cost, weight, and part count of the Aeon Propulsion System. You will work closely with internal and external manufacturing partners to ensure a producible product the can be manufactured at scale and deliver components to the Engine Assembly for integration and test. The success of Relativity is also highly dependent on your willingness to recruit, build, and mentor a world class team.

You have ideally designed and built large-scale data processing architectures, where your software engineering skills have been used to marry systems together in an efficient manner. You have also worked in multi-disciplinary environments requiring collaboration with different teams who have different types of data. At Relativity, you will be responsible for building out and maintaining software that is critical to our autonomous 3D printing process. This role requires that you are able to follow agile development practices and understand how to implement quality software that is continuously integrated and deployable to our production cells. You are excited to solve complex problems to which you can offer elegant solutions.

Build relationships across the commercial small satellite market including operators, manufacturers and consultants. Use your professional relationships and market knowledge to identify and prioritize sales efforts. Collect competitive information and complete competitive assessments for each opportunity. Support the setting of sales targets. Act as a brand ambassador to grow customers knowledge of and excitement about working with relativity. Develop creative approaches for winning new business.

Develop and grow the key relationships across the US government small launch enterprise including DoD (US Air Force, US Space Force, DARPA, NRO Space Development Agency, etc) and NASA. Leverage professional relationships and market knowledge to shape emerging opportunities. Develop capture plans for each identified opportunity. Obtain competitive intelligence and data pertaining to targeted pursuits and lead competitive assessments. Oversee active proposals to ensure they align with company goals and maximize our chances of capture. Support creation and execution of multi-year business development strategies that include: Engagement plans for current and future customers. Setting of financial targets for specific customers. Advocate resource planning needs to support growth goals vs. ongoing current contract performance.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to lead projects to completion. You are experienced in working across engineering disciplines to produce effective output and drive decisions at the interface of engineering systems. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects across the product lifecycle while collaborating effectively with a broad technical team

Relativity is looking for an Automation/Weld Engineer to join the multifaceted Additive Manufacturing team comprised of software, automation and computer vision engineers who work closely with welding engineers. This position will play a crucial role in expanding the systems that help us autonomously 3D print rockets!

You have experience bringing up new, custom embedded computer designs, from bootloaders to operating systems and device drivers. At Relativity, the software you develop will be a core piece of a software system that controls the entire vehicle operation, and is mission critical. Therefore, you should have a strong foundation of what it means to develop highly reliable software, following best practices around code quality and testing.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to lead their own projects into completion. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with other key groups.

To support our mission to reimagine the way rockets are built and flown, you will be joining our Communications and Brand team and be responsible for building an ecosystem of content that inspires our audiences. This newly created role will own the strategy, creation and execution of compelling content for all Relativity digital platforms, as well as be responsible for tracking the impact of campaigns and content through regular use of analytics.