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Manager, Build Reliability Engineering

relativity · Long Beach, California · Long Beach, California, United States
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<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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 </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the Team: </span></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="TextRun SCXW44032596 BCX0" lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44032596 BCX0">The Reliability team at Relativity Space ensures quality is built into every stage of the Terran R design and production process, embedding reliability from the very beginning. The team works directly with design, manufacturing, test, and launch teams to stay close to the hardware, understand constraints, and proactively shape decisions. As the program moves from development into production and scaled operations, this is the time to </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44032596 BCX0">establish</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW44032596 BCX0"> the right processes, controls, and inspections without slowing progress. The team plays a key role in balancing risk, fostering a culture of ownership, and making sure speed never comes at the cost of reliability. Success means creating a quality system that scales with the Terran R program and Relativity as a whole.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW44032596 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About the Role: </strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Manage and develop a team of Build Reliability Engineers, setting priorities, reviewing technical work, staying hands-on with hardware and process, and building the skills and career paths of direct reports</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Drive complex failure analysis using Fault Tree processes for critical manufacturing and field failures, ensuring corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) are validated and sustained to prevent recurrence</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Integrate Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and predictive modeling into early-stage designs to identify and mitigate risks before production begins</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Partner with NPI (New Product Introduction), Supply Chain, and Operations leadership to resolve reliability issues and influence supplier quality outcomes</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Define and maintain reliability KPIs such as Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), escapes to next operations, and first-pass yield, reporting progress and risk to cross-functional and executive stakeholder</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Lead risk escalation efforts using disciplined problem-solving methods (e.g., 8D), and build and scale the processes and staffing plan for the function as Terran R moves into higher rate production</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>About You:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bachelor's degree in Engineering (Mechanical, Aerospace, Industrial, or a related technical field)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">8+ years of experience in Build Reliability, Manufacturing Engineering, or a related discipline, with 2+ years of direct people management experience, including hiring, coaching, and performance management in a high-reliability industry</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hands-on manufacturing experience is required, with the ability to speak credibly to tooling, process, and build constraints</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional programs end-to-end, includi

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