Lead, Integration Components Manufacturing

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Long Beach, CA
In-Office
138K-176K Annually
Mid level
Aerospace • Hardware • Robotics • Software • Manufacturing
The Role
Lead a team to develop and produce engine integration hardware, manage projects, collaborate with various stakeholders, and ensure delivery meets program targets.
Summary Generated by Built In

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:

  • Lead a team that is responsible for the development and production of engine integration hardware such as ducts, manifolds, and structural brackets.
  • Requires mentorship, project management, establishing priorities, communicating with leadership, providing technical guidance, and recruiting/hiring to build the team.
  • Close collaboration with stakeholders within Manufacturing (Components manufacturing, Integration, PBF, Machine Shop, Planning) and external to Manufacturing (Supply Chain, Quality, and Design Engineering) to drive progress and adjust to ever changing requirements.
  • Ensure hardware delivery to engine to meet program targets, as well as drive continuous improvement, new product development, and future strategy for valves manufacturing at Relativity as a whole.

About You:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace, mechanical, manufacturing engineering, or equivalent.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience building and testing hardware in a manufacturing environment.
  • Extensive experience authoring work instructions and/or process procedures to manufacture complex assemblies.
  • Experience interfacing with design engineering, manufacturing, and production personnel in a production environment.
  • Experience executing and driving projects in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to understand - and advocate for - Design for Manufacturing principles.

Nice to haves but not required:  

  • 5+ years of experience building and testing hardware in a manufacturing environment.
  • Previous experience leading engineering teams and mentoring peers.
  • Extensive experience with engine integration components.
  • Experience in scaling from development to high-rate production.

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:
$138,000$176,000 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.

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Aerospace Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
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The Company
HQ: Long Beach, CA
1,800 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, Terran R, 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.

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