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Quality Systems Engineer

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85K-109K Annually
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Long Beach, CA
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Develop and maintain a Quality Management System (QMS) in compliance with aerospace regulations, ensuring processes are robust and effective while supporting risk management and continuous improvement initiatives.
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At 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. 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.

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. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.


About the Team
 
The Quality team is focused on embedding quality into every part of the design and production process for Terran R. Not just inspecting at the end but influencing how things are built from the start. The team embeds themselves directly within design, manufacturing, test, and launch teams to stay close to the hardware, understand constraints, and proactively shape decisions. As we move beyond initial development into production and then scaled operations, now is the time to put the right processes, controls, and inspections in place without slowing down progress. The team plays a key role in balancing risk, driving a culture of ownership, and ensuring that speed doesn’t come at the cost of reliability. Success here means building a quality system that scales with the Terran R program and Relativity as a whole.
 
About the Role
 
The Quality Systems Engineer in QMS team will be responsible for developing, implementing, maintaining, and continuously improving our Quality Management System in compliance with AS9100 and applicable aerospace regulations. You will:
 
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and leadership teams to ensure our processes are robust, our documentation is clear, and our execution drives mission success. 
• Develop, implement, and maintain the quality management system (QMS) in alignment with AS9100, customer requirements, and regulatory expectations.
• Lead QMS documentation control system that ensures effective document release, revision control, and accessibility, to support the scale of
• Manage the internal audits, external audits, and certification activities; track and close out audit findings.
• Support risk management activities and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide QMS training and guidance to employees at all levels.
 
About You - Minimum Qualifications
 
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, quality, or related STEM field, or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in quality systems or quality engineering, familiar with QMS platforms and digital applications, preferably in aerospace
• In-depth working experience of AS9100 or ISO9001 requirements and principles.
• Certified QMS lead auditor (AS9100 preferred).
• Strong skills in document control, process mapping, and continuous improvement.

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

Hiring Range:
$85,000$109,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Top Skills

As9100
Digital Applications
Iso9001
Qms Platforms
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Relativity Space Long Beach, California, USA Office

We have two sites in Long Beach, CA's Space Beach: "The Wormhole," a 1M sq. ft. factory, once Boeing C-17's home. Nearby, "The Portal" supports Aeon R engine production for our Terran R launch vehicle.

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