Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Turbomachinery

Company: Relativity Space
Location: Long Beach
Posted on: February 15, 2026

Job Description:

Job Description Job 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 Engine Manufacturing team is dedicated to delivering high-performance engines and advancing innovative manufacturing systems that continuously improve cost, quality, and lead time. You're not just executing on designs; you actively provide input that shapes new hardware iterations and regularly interface with engineers to make critical decisions for the Aeon R program. Having successfully developed and refined processes for our initial development engines, the team is now focused on producing flight engines at rate for Terran R's aggressive launch manifest. About the Role: Have end-to-end hardware manufacturing ownership of Terran R turbopumps in a fast-paced, and sometimes ambiguous development environment. Create constantly improving manufacturing work instructions and lead manufacturing and production strategy for hardware. Investigate and resolve hardware non-conformances and drive implementation of corrective actions. Design tooling and fixtures for assembly and test. Collaborate with design engineers, test engineers, technicians, and internal machine shop for hardware development, manufacturing, test, and scalability for high volume production. Work closely with supply chain team to procure turbomachinery hardware and bring down program costs. About You: Bachelor's degree in technical discipline and a minimum of 5 years' experience building, manufacturing, testing, or troubleshooting turbomachinery hardware in a manufacturing environment. Project Management: Experience owning complex technical projects collaborating with design engineering, manufacturing, and production personnel with limited management input. Manufacturing Process Experience: Turbomachinery balance, Machining, Additive, Assembly Integration. Ability to effectively investigate and resolve hardware non-conformances and drive implementation of corrective actions with extreme independence. Ability to work with and train technicians in a hands-on hardware environment, writing work instructions, and process plans for complex assemblies. Proficiency with tooling design using with Siemens NX or other CAD tools, including conceptualization, modeling and drafting, and detailed analysis. Nice to haves but not required: Experience transitioning products from development to high volume production. Experience in start-up environment. Experience with Vendor / Supplier Management Experience writing formal process specifications and manufacturing standards. At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors. Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. 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. Hiring Range: $130,000—$166,000 USD We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@relativityspace.com.

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