Senior Materials & Processes Engineer, Turbomachinery

The role

This person will be the M&P owner for reusable Liquid Propulsion Turbomachinery Products, Materials Systems, and Disciplines. They will qualify turbomachinery materials and products for flight and reuse while developing technical specifications and engineering standards.

What you will do

• Be the M&P owner of reusable Liquid Propulsion Turbomachinery Products, Materials Systems, and Disciplines
• Qualify turbomachinery materials and products for flight and reuse
• Develop, implement, and maintain technical specifications and engineering standards
• Drive statistically-driven experimental design and process improvement campaigns
• Interface with materials engineering staff to identify and fill technology gaps
• Interface with laboratory staff to characterize materials and processes
• Interface with Design Engineers for material selection, allowables, and qualification
• Interface with Manufacturing Engineers to reduce cost and rate
• Interface with Quality assurance to facilitate specification compliance validation
• Interface with Propulsion Engineers to perform failure analysis and corrective action

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in materials science or engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of relevant turbomachinery materials experience
• Experience with general propulsion hardware M&P activities, such as material selection, qualification, damage tolerance, inspections, risk assessments, and failure analysis
• Experience performing material and part qualifications for either AM laser powder bed fusion systems or traditional material forming (wrought, forgings, castings)

Nice to have

• Deep understanding of turbomachinery within reusable aerospace or rocket engines and all associated materials challenges
• Expertise in nickel, ferrous, aluminum, or titanium alloy systems
• Metallic additive manufacturing M&P expertise with Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF)
• Metallic wrought, forging, or casting M&P expertise
• Metallic fusion welding M&P expertise in Laser Welding, EBW, GTAW, GMAW, etc.
• Knowledge of surface modification processes and coatings relevant to inhibit surface damage + corrosion of reusable turbomachinery parts
• Statistical experimental design and design allowable calculation methodology expertise

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.