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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Manufacturing Engineer, Mechanisms - **Company:** Relativity Space, Inc. - **Location:** Long Beach, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $122,000.0 - $167,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Hardware Testing - **Published:** May 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=12f23b11345d3782 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Manufacturing facility?, * BS degree in aerospace, mechanical, or manufacturing engineering with 5+ years of experience building and testing hardware in a manufacturing environment. * Extensive experience developing processes, authoring work instructions and/or test procedures to build and test interdisciplinary mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic assemblies. * Experience interfacing with design engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, planning, and production personnel. * Extensive experience leading, executing and managing large process and/or quality improvements with large scope of ownership. * Ability to work autonomously with little supervision in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment. * Expert in at least 2 of the following: + fastening and torquing operations, pneumatic and/or electromechanical assembly, electrical and/or pneumatic testing or functional checkouts, tooling design and fabrication, potting processes, grease plating processes, harness manufacturing, machining of complex products like gears. Nice to haves but not required: * New product introduction of an aerospace hardware system into a manufacturing, test, and production system with proven success. Along with transitioning products from prototype to high volume production. Understand the importance of assessing a situation and leveraging both short-term and long-term solutions. * Working knowledge of rocket subsystems including structures, mechanisms, high pressure gas systems and/or avionics. * Expert understanding of GD&T and drafting principles. * Experience in capacity analyses, DFMEA/PFMEA, value stream mapping. ## Description * Own major mechanized assemblies and their child components from design release through test and successful integration onto the Terran R launch vehicle-lay out the build and test flow to ensure an efficient, high-quality product flow capable of scaling with time. * Drive the assembly's build and test effort through design integration, part sourcing, assembly sequencing, mBOM development, build and test work order creation, and specification authoring. * Support workcenter development by considering assembly and test operations, safety, tooling and capital equipment requirements, and company operational goals. * Provide hands-on support to the shop floor and production personnel, promptly addressing any issues that arise and offering upstream feedback to drive design for manufacturability. * Analyze and disposition recurring manufacturing discrepancies and lead multi-disciplinary teams on root cause analysis and corrective actions. * Foster a culture of critical thinking and imaginative problem-solving, constantly challenging the established norms in engineering and manufacturing, and pushing the boundaries to achieve efficient production throughout the workcenter. 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