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Overview

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Senior Vehicle Structures Design Engineer will design parts and systems for the Terran R rocket, contributing to its development and ensuring manufacturability and performance.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop piece parts, assemblies, and systems from early conceptualization to full initial release.
  • Integrate design for manufacturing choices in coordination with the manufacturing engineering team.
  • Perform packaging assessments, resolve interferences, and validate hardware stacks.
  • Support BOM and configuration management across multiple vehicles.
  • Create and release drawings as part of system release sprints post-CDR.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in a design engineering role.
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline.
  • Experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, CATIA, Creo, or SOLIDWORKS.
  • Fundamental knowledge of structures strength, stability, and fatigue failure mechanisms.
  • Ability to work in the context of large assemblies and navigate large vehicle BOMs.

Benefits

  • PTO

Benefits

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Pay in context

At roughly $79/hr, this posting sits about 56% above the $51/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA — toward the top of a $35–$69/hr middle band drawn from 51 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 82% 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.

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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.

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