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Overview

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Staff Materials & Processes Engineer for Fluid Systems will play a crucial role in enabling the Terran R vehicle to fly and scale by developing, characterizing, and inspecting materials and processes.

Responsibilities

  • Be the cognizant M&P engineer of launch vehicle fluid systems.
  • Qualify fluid system materials and processes for flight and reuse.
  • Develop, implement, and maintain technical specifications and engineering standards.
  • Drive statistically-driven experimental design and process improvement campaigns.
  • Interface with materials engineers to identify, define, and fill critical technology gaps.
  • Collaborate with laboratory staff to characterize materials and processes.
  • Support materials selection, design and analysis, qualification, failure analysis, flight, and reuse with fluid system responsible engineers.
  • Develop processes, troubleshoot issues, and enable cost & rate while maintaining performance with manufacturing engineers.
  • Ensure subcontractor compliance and reliability with quality assurance and supply chain.
  • Achieve vehicle reuse with Relativity + Customer Fracture Control Boards.
  • Develop technical roadmaps, elevate risks, and overcome roadblocks with leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in materials science or engineering, or related field.
  • 7+ years of relevant materials and processes experience.
  • Experience with general M&P activities, such as material selection, process development, qualification, damage tolerance, inspections, risk assessments, and failure analysis.
  • A core commitment to accountability, collaboration, and execution.
  • A desire to establish and foster strong interdisciplinary relationships across the company.
  • An authentic, introspective, and inclusive mindset towards technical, interpersonal, team growth, and development.
  • Passion to work in a fast-paced and challenging environment on constantly iterating products + processes.

Benefits

  • PTO

Benefits

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Pay in context

At roughly $90/hr, this posting sits about 77% above the $51/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA — toward the top of a $34–$68/hr middle band drawn from 49 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 92% 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.

The local market in Long Beach, CA

We're tracking 56 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 15 different employers. 16 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 623 other active welding openings from 288 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 19 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 (34), Vast (22), and Relativity Space (19). 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 $71/hr, Long Beach at $51/hr, and Torrance at $43/hr. Long Beach is among them.

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