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Overview

At Relativity Space, we're building rockets to meet today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. The Senior Integration Technician will play a critical role in assembling, testing, and installing flight hardware for the Terran R vehicle, contributing to the future of scaled launch.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure various components and systems of flight hardware are assembled, tested, and installed with high quality.
  • Operate in a fast-paced manufacturing environment to build and install flight hardware.
  • Collaborate with the production team, integration engineers, and quality team to develop and document job operations.
  • Focus on assembly, installation, and testing of flight hardware through development and production of Terran R.

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, secondary retention, testing, avionics familiarity, and bonding operations.
  • Effective communication skills (verbal and written) with engineering and production.
  • Ability to set up and operate a wide range of hand and pneumatic tools along with calibrated tools and measuring devices.
  • Comfortable climbing ladders and working in tight spaces.
  • Ability to navigate and walk on uneven terrain or surfaces.
  • Able to frequently crouch, bend, or squat to access low-level areas or equipment.
  • Able to kneel to perform work duties as needed throughout a shift.
  • Able to reach and extend arms overhead to complete assembly tasks.

Benefits

  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Weekend shift position with a schedule of Friday through Monday, 5:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT, including 8 guaranteed overtime hours each week.
  • Employees receive a 10% premium.

Benefits

PTO
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How this job compares in Long Beach, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $43/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA, whose middle half runs $35–$55/hr across 45 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 44% 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 53 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 20 different employers. 20 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 586 other active welding openings from 267 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 21 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), Relativity Space (21), and Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (18). 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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