relativity

Manager, Manufacturing Engineering

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At a Glance

Location
Long Beach, California, United States
Experience
5+ years
Posted
2026-03-20T11:50:08-04:00

Key Requirements

Domain Knowledge

  • Aerospace
  • Engineering
  • Manufacturing

Requirements

5+ years experience leading engineering teams through development/production transition and/or scaling to meet rate

Proven ability to effectively interface with design engineering, manufacturing, and production teams to ensure seamless collaboration and integration of processes.

Experience working in new-space manufacturing environment.

Experience in the manufacture of highly controlled aerospace products

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

Compensation & Benefits

$142,000

$196,000 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

Responsibilities

Develop and implement build and test solutions to increase production rate, reduce touch time / hours and improve build quality to support increasing production rate.

Partner with design teams to drive future design trades on combustion device products, improving design function, build rate / manufacturability and reliability.

Lead efforts to build up novel processing technologies aimed at high volume component manufacturing.

Lead both tactical and strategic planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of manufacturing methods and processes for new and existing products

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.