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Senior Materials & Processes Engineer, Turbomachinery

Relativity Space
CompanyRelativity Space
CategoryEngineering
LocationLong Beach
RemoteOn-site (inferred)
EmploymentNot stated
LevelSenior
SalaryNot stated by the employer
Posted26 Sept 2025
Last verified12 Aug 2026
SourceEmployer ATS (greenhouse)
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Description
At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known. Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us. About the Team:    The Materials and NDE (Non-Destructive Evaluation) team plays a central role in enabling Terran R to fly, re-fly, and scale: developing, characterizing, and inspecting materials and processes across all parts of the vehicle. From welding and additive manufacturing to advanced composites, the team works at the intersection of innovation and execution, balancing performance and reliability with cost, quality, and schedule. As we move toward first flight and beyond, the challenges become more exciting, offering opportunities to shape how we design and develop for re-use. With ownership across products, systems, and disciplines, engineers gain broad exposure and drive key decisions across design, manufacturing, and operations. About the Role:   Be the M&P owner of reusable Liquid Propulsion Turbomachinery Products, Materials Systems, and Disciplines Qualify turbomachinery materials and products for flight + reuse Develop, implement, and maintain technical specifications and engineering standards Drive statistically-driven experimental design and process improvement campaigns Interface with: Materials engineering staff to identify, define, and fill critical turbomachinery technology gaps Laboratory staff to characterize materials and processes Design Engineers for product materials selection, allowables development, analysis, qualification, flight, and reuse Manufacturing Engineers to reduce cost + rate while maintaining needed performance for turbomachinery products Quality assurance to facilitate specification compliance validation Propulsion Engineers to perform failure analysis, root cause and corrective action campaigns when turbomachinery parts fail in service Relativity + Customer Fracture Control Boards to achieve vehicle reuse Company Leadership to elevate risks and power through roadblocks About You:     Bachelor’s degree in materials science or engineering, or related field 5+ years of relevant turbomachinery materials experience Leveling is flexible and will be adjusted for candidates with more experience Experience with general propulsion hardware M&P activities, such as material selection, qualification, damage tolerance, inspections, risk assessments, and failure analysis Experience performing material and part qualifications for either AM laser powder bed fusion systems or traditional material forming (wrought, forgings, castings) A core commitment to accountability, collaboration, and execution A desire to establish and foster strong