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Overview

At Relativity Space, the Senior Integration Technician role is crucial for assembling, testing, and installing flight hardware for the Terran R vehicle. This position emphasizes collaboration and innovation in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, contributing to the future of aerospace.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure high-quality assembly, testing, and installation of flight hardware.
  • Collaborate with production, integration engineers, and quality teams.
  • Document job operations and processes.
  • Focus on assembly, installation, and testing of flight hardware.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of aerospace mechanical experience or related field.
  • Experience in a fast-paced production environment with flight hardware.
  • Wide range of technical skills including fastener/torque applications and avionics familiarity.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to operate hand and pneumatic tools and calibrated measuring devices.
  • Comfortable climbing ladders and working in tight spaces.
  • Able to navigate uneven terrain and perform physical tasks like bending and squatting.

Benefits

  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Second-shift position with a schedule of Monday through Friday, 3:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. PT.
  • Structured around a 50-hour workweek with 10 guaranteed overtime hours each week.
  • 10% shift differential included.

Benefits

PTO
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How this job compares in Long Beach, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $42/hr, this posting comes in about 23% below the $54/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA, where the middle half runs $35–$75/hr across 51 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Long Beach, CA

We're tracking 58 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 18 different employers. 12 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 592 other active welding openings from 268 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Long Beach, or widen the search to California.

Relativity Space currently has 16 other openings live in California, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (37), Vast (18), and Honeywell Aerospace (17). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Gardena at $73/hr, Redondo Beach at $72/hr, and Pasadena at $61/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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