Senior Build Quality Engineer

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. This is just the beginning—commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of an environment where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. You’ll solve 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.

It’s a unique moment to leave a mark on the product, process, and culture while Terran R is tangible and gaining momentum.

The Quality team embeds itself directly within design, manufacturing, test, and launch teams to stay close to hardware, understand constraints, and proactively shape decisions. As we move beyond initial development into production and scaled operations, we’re putting the right processes, controls, and inspections in place without slowing progress. The team balances risk, drives an ownership culture, and ensures speed never costs reliability.

Success means building a quality system that scales with the Terran R program and Relativity as a whole.

• Ownership may include the following:
  Design—drawing standardization, DFM, and configuration management and control.
• Planning: work instruction review, process development, standard rework/repair documentation.
• Manufacturing: in-process build verification, coordination of travelled work, etc.
• Drive initiatives to facilitate quality in our growing launch vehicle program. Some projects may include spearheading specification development, developing walk‑down checklists, supporting automation initiatives for quality inspection, assisting in DFM practices, etc.
• Develop strong working relationships with Engineering, Additive, Manufacturing, Test, and Launch teams to ensure all company objectives can be met.

• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering or other STEM field and minimum of 5 years of experience acting as a Quality Engineer at a fast‑paced manufacturing company.
• Extensive experience interfacing with design engineering, manufacturing, production and test personnel.
• In‑depth knowledge of aerospace manufacturing/complex assembly practices and typical quality processes/controls.
• Working knowledge of typical PLM, MES, ERP and QMS software and proficiency with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Ability to solve a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways and evaluate alternative solutions that may require coordination across multiple teams.
• Ability to effectively communicate and present information to team members, team leaders, and top management and well‑versed in process development and first‑time quality efforts.

• Working knowledge of product development methodologies such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Production Process Verification (PPV).
• New product introduction (NPI) of hardware system into a manufacturing, test, and production system with proven success.
• Familiarity with high‑volume inspection methods and data‑driven acceptance methods.
• Understanding of AS9100/ISO
  9001 applications and practices for an aerospace program.
• Self‑starter that has demonstrated the ability to define and own a process from scratch and roll out that process through adept communication to a diverse team.

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.

Hiring Range:

$120,000 – $154,000 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.

We are federally regulated contractors and are required to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. This is a voluntary process. Your participation, or lack thereof, will not impact your application.