Senior Avionics Manufacturing Engineer

Relativity Space
Long Beach, CaliforniaPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<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;">The Avionics team is responsible for the full lifecycle of Terran R’s nervous system, designing, building, testing, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">installing, and operating the hardware that connects and controls every major electrical system on the vehicle and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">ground. The team’s structure intentionally combines avionics design, manufacturing, and test to enable rapid </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">iteration and feedback loops. Engineers are deeply embedded into other functions within Relativity, working </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">closely with propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and operation. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Now is a unique time to join: you’ll get to help shape Terran R's fundamental avionics architecture and be given a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">high degree of ownership on components that will fly.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the Role:</span></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop detailed process plans, work instructions, and work orders for the manufacturing of avionics hardware and wire harnesses</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Conduct Manufacturing Readiness Reviews (MRRs) to ensure production readiness and risk mitigation before major builds</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Collaborate with design engineers to provide Design for Manufacturability (DFM) feedback and improve product des ... (truncated, view full listing at source)