Principal Mechanical Design & Analysis Engineer, Tooling

The role

This person will design and develop high quality development and production tooling and automation solutions for the Terran vehicle and Aeon engine programs. They will manage projects including vendor selection, fabrication, inspection, equipment installation, and commissioning of tooling.

What you will do

• Develop high quality development and production tooling and automation solutions for the Terran vehicle and Aeon engine programs
• Integrate concepts and principles of mechanical design and analysis of several different projects
• Interpret and apply sound design and drafting standards (ASME Y14.5) in creating tooling drawing definitions
• Handle technical problems with material handling, assembly fixtures, off-loaders, rotisseries, test fixtures, structural weldments, environmental chambers, and custom machines
• Collaborate with component designers, manufacturing engineers, and integration engineering
• Manage projects including vendor selection, fabrication, inspection, equipment installation, and commissioning of tooling

Required qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering or equivalent
• 15+ years of work or project experience with design, build, and commissioning of tooling and fixtures for manufacturing, assembly and test
• Experience using CAD and FEA-based analysis software for structural applications
• Experience in full-cycle project completion
• Experience in strategic buildout and project management of tooling supporting production

Nice to have

• Strong expertise in design for manufacturability and design for assembly including experience taking products from prototype design to production
• Solid understanding of common manufacturing materials, GD&T, and tolerance/stack-up analysis
• Solid understanding of common manufacturing processes and machines including mills, lathes, welding, sheet-metal bending, lifting/rigging, assembly, inspection, etc.
• Experience with custom machine design: motors, actuators, linear rails/actuators, pneumatics, bearings, etc.
• NX and ANSYS Workbench preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Generous PTO and sick leave policy
• Parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend

About the company

Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. They are developing the Terran R vehicle to deliver customer payloads to orbit.