Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Engineer Intern

Relativity Space Internships • Long Beach, CA

113d • $32 - $40

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Finishing your degree in an Engineering or Scientific discipline, with exposure to the fundamentals of Materials Science and/or Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE)
• Experience with materials characterization, including metallography, electron microscopy, mechanical testing, optical microscopy, non-destructive evaluation, etc.
• Experience with data science and computational materials approaches, especially applied to materials data management and design of materials
• Self-starter with the ability to wear multiple hats, solve problems, and develop technical skills utilizing a hands-on approach

Nice To Haves

• Completed or in process undergraduate or graduate coursework in Materials Science and/ or Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE)
• Familiarity with aluminums, Ni-based superalloys, stainless steels, titaniums, aluminum-bronzes, and copper-nickels, HSLA steels
• Familiarity with additive manufacturing technologies, specifically metal AM technologies including WAAM, DED, L-PBF, etc.
• Hands-on experience with welding or NDE

Responsibilities

• Contribute to materials characterization projects to better understand and improve upon Relativity’s AM processes
• Quantify materials and NDE properties of new additive manufacturing technologies and inform the impact of material microstructure on properties
• Support production of additive hardware and assess whether existing materials/ NDE work necessitates a process change
• Help build Relativity’s next generation, fully reusable rocket, Terran-R

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Generous PTO and sick leave policy
• Parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees