Senior TPS Technician

Overview

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.

The Stage Manufacturing team turns design into reality, owning the build of Terran R’s primary structures. This isn’t about turning the same bolt every day; it’s about building the systems to build the rocket. Engineers and technicians work side by side, with deep collaboration and real‑time feedback, to shape how we build better and faster. With a manifest and a launch date, it’s up to the team to deliver on Terran R: solving challenges in real time, optimizing for scale, and constantly improving processes.

As the vehicle evolves, so will the factory, with opportunities to apply automation, machine learning, and advanced technologies. What we build here sets the blueprint for the future of scaled launch.

This is a 1st shift position with a standard schedule of 5:00 am‑3:30 pm PT, Monday through Friday. Please note that this position is structured around a baseline expectation of a 50‑hour workweek, which may include occasional overtime as needed to meet operational goals.

The TPS technician will play a critical role in ensuring various flight hardware components are properly treated with Thermal Protection Systems materials through proper surface preparation and adhesive bonding techniques.

• Operate in a fast‑paced manufacturing environment to successfully build flight hardware per released work instructions and standard operating procedures.
• Collaborate with the production team, integration engineers and quality team to build, develop, and document job operations.
• Occasionally support operations at downstream sites (Stennis, Cape Canaveral) related to TPS.

• High school diploma or equivalency certification.
• 4+ years of aerospace manufacturing experience or related field.
• Experience with adhesive bonding operations such as surface preparation, adhesive mixing, and vacuum bag bonding.
• Ability to effectively communicate (verbal and written) with engineering and production.
• Ability to set up and operate a range of hand and pneumatic tools along with calibrated tools and measuring devices.
• Working experience with Manufacturing Execution System software to document manufacturing operations (work order labor charging, buyoffs, data collections, etc.).

• FAA Airframe and Power Plant license.
• Experience partnering with other business functions to successfully build flight hardware such as manufacturing engineering and quality.
• Experience supporting aerospace manufacturing operations at remote or downstream work sites.
• 100% health care coverage on your first day.
• Quarterly wellness stipend to use on health and wellness.
• Partnership with Modern Health with access to 8 therapy & coaching sessions and mental‑health resources.
• Discounts on gym memberships, travel and entertainment through Perk Spot.
• Unlimited onsite snacks.
• Free lunch on Mondays and Fridays.
• Annual learning and…