Senior Process Engineer, PBF Manufacturing

Relativity Space • Long Beach, CA

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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.
About the Team:
The Powder Bed Fusion manufacturing team develops, creates, and operates the most advanced additive manufacturing technologies in the world. This best-in-class team makes sure that the infrastructure, materials, tools, and equipment are in place for us to rapidly iterate and print. The Powder-Based manufacturing team was crucial to manufacturing Aeon-1 for first launch and now are developing and demonstrating groundbreaking technologies, design, and approaches for Aeon-R.
About the Role:
Support the installation, commissioning, and operation of additive post processing manufacturing equipment
Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, work instructions, checklists, and safety protocols for additive manufacturing, including post processing equipment
Be responsible for establishing of process flow to meet production rate and quality goals
Communicate roadblocks to team leaders and technicians promptly to appropriately react, contain, and recover
Track machine utilization and drive reductions in planned and unplanned downtime
Perform manufacturing ROI and cost trade analysis optimizing machine capital and process improvements
Develop and implement tooling and statistical process control into production processes to further improve reliability and reduce cost and lead time

Requirements

• BS Degree in Engineering (or relevant technical discipline)
• 5+ years of experience with process engineering in a manufacturing environment
• Experience working with powder bed fusion metal printing
• Experience working in a fast-paced, iterative design environment
• Experience working within ISO AS9100/ISO9000, medical device manufacturing environment, or similar

Nice To Haves

• Six-Sigma Greenbelt, SPC, & DOE
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing practices, such as, 5S or Six Sigma

Responsibilities

• Support the installation, commissioning, and operation of additive post processing manufacturing equipment
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures, work instructions, checklists, and safety protocols for additive manufacturing, including post processing equipment
• Be responsible for establishing of process flow to meet production rate and quality goals
• Communicate roadblocks to team leaders and technicians promptly to appropriately react, contain, and recover
• Track machine utilization and drive reductions in planned and unplanned downtime
• Perform manufacturing ROI and cost trade analysis optimizing machine capital and process improvements
• Develop and implement tooling and statistical process control into production processes to further improve reliability and reduce cost and lead time

Benefits

• Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!
• To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees