Job Description

Overview

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Senior Integration Technician will play a critical role in ensuring that various components and systems of flight hardware are assembled, tested, and installed with the highest quality.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure assembly, testing, and installation of flight hardware.
  • Collaborate with production team, integration engineers, and quality team.
  • Document job operations related to flight hardware.
  • Work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of aerospace mechanical experience or related field.
  • Experience in a fast-paced production environment handling flight hardware.
  • Wide range of technical skills including fastener/torque applications and avionics familiarity.
  • Effective communication skills with engineering and production teams.
  • Ability to operate hand and pneumatic tools along with calibrated tools.
  • Comfortable working in tight spaces and climbing ladders.

Benefits

  • PTO

Additional Information

  • First-shift position with a schedule of Monday through Friday, 5:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT.
  • Structured around a 50-hour workweek, including 10 guaranteed overtime hours each week.

Benefits

PTO

How this job compares in Long Beach, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $42/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $43/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA, whose middle half runs $34–$54/hr across 43 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 35% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Long Beach, CA

We're tracking 51 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 19 different employers. 14 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 544 other active welding openings from 252 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 20 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 (36), Relativity Space (20), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (16). 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 Redondo Beach at $65/hr, Pasadena at $61/hr, and Santa Ana at $48/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Senior Integration Technician, Stage Integration, First Shift figures were last recalculated when this page was built.