Staff Build Reliability Engineer, Clean Line

The role

This person will serve as the company-wide technical authority for precision cleaning, fluid system cleanliness, and contamination control. They will establish technical strategies and special process control frameworks to ensure hardware quality from manufacturing through launch.

What you will do

• Serve as the company-wide technical authority for precision cleaning, fluid system cleanliness, contamination control, and passivation.
• Establish and own the special process control framework including qualification, validation, and auditing.
• Lead the development, industrialization, and scaling of precision clean-line capabilities.
• Define company-wide engineering specifications, cleanliness acceptance criteria, and inspection methods.
• Define technician training and certification standards.
• Drive resolution of complex cleanliness, contamination, and special-process challenges.
• Lead root cause investigations and corrective actions.
• Act as a senior technical leader influencing engineering and manufacturing decisions.
• Mentor engineers and technicians to ensure consistent execution of standards.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• 8+ years of progressive process engineering experience in aerospace, high-reliability manufacturing, or a similarly complex production environment
• 5+ years of direct experience developing, owning, or scaling precision cleaning, fluid system cleaning, clean-line, contamination control, or comparable aerospace special processes
• Deep expertise in special process control, including process qualification, validation, contamination prevention, statistical process control, inspection methodology, process capability, and continuou
• Demonstrated experience establishing and enforcing technical standards, cleanliness requirements, and quality controls across multiple stages of hardware manufacturing, assembly, integration, and test
• Proven ability to independently resolve complex, cross-functional technical challenges, lead failure investigations, identify systemic quality risks, and implement corrective actions

Nice to have

• M.S. or Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline
• Experience establishing precision cleaning, contamination control, or special-process capabilities for propulsion systems, fluid systems, or flight hardware
• Familiarity with IEST-STD-CC1246 or other aerospace cleanliness, contamination control, and quality standards
• Experience developing and implementing enterprise-wide special process governance, qualification, or certification programs
• Experience supporting hardware cleanliness and contamination control requirements from component manufacturing through vehicle assembly, integration, testing, and launch operations

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.