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Overview

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Senior Weld Technician will play a crucial role in developing and inspecting materials and processes for the Terran R vehicle, contributing to innovative aerospace solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Set up and run laser and manual GTAW welds on Terran R development and flight hardware.
  • Fit up, fixture, tack, prep and clean parts, inspecting them with micrometers, calipers and torque wrenches.
  • Program and touch up robot paths, align laser optics and maintain weld cells.
  • Run test welds with Weld Engineers to develop parameters and troubleshoot equipment and weld defects.
  • Record weld data in travelers and follow laser safety rules and Relativity Space standards.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of hands-on laser or GTAW welding experience, preferably in aerospace to AWS D17.1 or similar requirements.
  • Familiar with welding and fabrication of common aerospace alloys such as aluminum, stainless steel and nickel alloys.
  • Can read blueprints and GD&T callouts, and can inspect parts and assemblies at every assembly level.
  • Able to lift 25 lbs and work in confined spaces.

Benefits

  • PTO

Benefits

PTO
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How this job compares in Long Beach, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $43/hr, this posting comes in about 12% below the $49/hr median for welding jobs in Long Beach, CA, where the middle half runs $34–$58/hr across 37 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 38% 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 42 other active welding openings in Long Beach, CA right now, from 18 different employers. 11 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 486 other active welding openings from 234 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 13 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 (35), Welding Shop in Los Angeles, CA (17), and Relativity Space (13). 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 Long Beach at $49/hr, El Segundo at $48/hr, and Los Angeles at $44/hr. Long Beach is among them.

What you'll be running

This posting calls for TIG. TIG (GTAW) uses a non-consumable tungsten electrode with filler added by hand, giving the operator the most control of any process. It is slow, demanding, and the standard for stainless, aluminum, and anything where the bead has to look as good as it holds.

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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 Weld Technician figures were last recalculated when this page was built.