Sr Weld Technician - Additive Weld
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: Relativity Space pioneered large-scale additive manufacturing with our Terran 1 rocket, the largest 3D-printed object to fly. Now a distinct business unit within Relativity, Horizon Manufacturing Technologies is advancing next-generation manufacturing for aerospace and beyond. The team operates at the frontier of manufacturing innovation, where creativity meets capability. This is an environment where cutting-edge R&D is put into production, industrializing advanced manufacturing capabilities to solve customer problems. You’ll work alongside welders, robotics engineers, data scientists, and systems engineers at the intersection of hardware and software, creating an end-to-end additive manufacturing platform that serves a wide variety of applications. From exploring new materials to unlocking faster print speeds, to designing complex, organic geometries that can’t be built any other way, it’s high-impact work that sets the foundation for the future of advanced manufacturing About the Role: Demonstrate both hands on and theoretical understand of arc welding processes to produce high quality welds for Wire Directed Energy Deposition (Wire-DED, W-DED); Additive Manufacturing (AM) Independently develop and own weld parameters to advance our current processes Understand and operate mechanized or robotic welding equipment Collaborate with multiple teams from design, robotics, materials, NDE, and operations using verbal and written communications \ Assist in optimizing and automating our processes by implementing new and innovative ways to join materials
Requirements
- 4+ years of welding industry experience
- Technical and theoretical experience with GMAW
- Diagnose weld defects and suggest corrective actions for both repair and process optimization
- Capable of reading engineering drawings and fabricating components using metal working tools including 3-axis mills, lathes, manual GTAW, GMAW welding
- Ability to perform first pass diagnostics and identification of issues with robotic welding systems
- Excellent trouble shooting and problem solving skills, including suggesting appropriate modifications to welding equipment to improve the process
Nice To Haves
- Robotic Welding experience
- Experience with Fronius Welding Power Supplies
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate both hands on and theoretical understand of arc welding processes to produce high quality welds for Wire Directed Energy Deposition (Wire-DED, W-DED); Additive Manufacturing (AM)
- Independently develop and own weld parameters to advance our current processes
- Understand and operate mechanized or robotic welding equipment
- Collaborate with multiple teams from design, robotics, materials, NDE, and operations using verbal and written communications \
- Assist in optimizing and automating our processes by implementing new and innovative ways to join materials
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!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
