Launch Welder III
Location
Cape Canaveral, FL
Wage
$33.2 – $49.8/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 4, 2026
Location
Cape Canaveral, FL
Wage
$33.2 – $49.8/hr
Employment Type
Full-time
Posted on October 4, 2026
At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Launch Welder III will fabricate, fit, and weld piping systems for the Terran R launch site, collaborating across teams to support the development of innovative aerospace solutions.
At roughly $42/hr, this posting sits about 48% above the $28/hr median for welding jobs across Florida — toward the top of a $23–$32/hr middle band drawn from 134 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 93% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.
Cape Canaveral, FL currently has 5 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 3 employers. None of them were added in the last week, so this is a slower-moving market. Across Florida as a whole we're tracking 287 other active welding openings from 163 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Cape Canaveral, or widen the search to Florida.
Relativity Space currently has 1 other opening live in Florida, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.
The most active employers in Florida at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in Miami, FL (17), BAE Systems (11), and Welding Shop in Tampa, FL (11). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.
Within Florida, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are MIAMI at $35/hr, Jacksonville at $32/hr, and Orlando at $29/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.
This posting calls for MIG, TIG, Stick, and Flux-Core work. MIG (GMAW) feeds a continuous wire electrode through a shielding-gas nozzle. It lays down metal fast and is forgiving on clean material, which is why it dominates production and light fabrication work. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.
Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Launch Welder III figures were last recalculated when this page was built.