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Overview

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

Responsibilities

  • Assemble, test, and install flight hardware with high quality.
  • Collaborate with production team, integration engineers, and quality team.
  • Document job operations and processes.
  • Focus on assembly, installation, and testing of flight hardware.

Requirements

  • 2+ 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 verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to set up and operate hand and pneumatic tools.
  • Comfortable climbing ladders and working in tight spaces.

Benefits

  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Weekend shift position from Friday through Monday, 5:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT.
  • Includes 8 guaranteed overtime hours each week.
  • 10% weekend premium.

Benefits

PTO
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How this job compares in Long Beach, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $35/hr, this posting comes in about 17% below the $42/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA, where the middle half runs $31–$63/hr across 34 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 32% 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 38 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 14 different employers. 13 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 625 other active welding openings from 304 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 8 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 (31), Aerotek (16), and Volt (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 $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and Long Beach at $42/hr. Long Beach is among them.

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