Additive Manufacturing Engineer II

About the Team: 

The Additive Development team at Relativity Space will develop, create, and operate the most advanced additive manufacturing technologies in the world. This best-in-class team makes sure that the infrastructure, materials, tools, and equipment are in place for us to rapidly iterate and print. The powder-based manufacturing team is crucial to manufacturing Aeon-1 for first launch and to developing and demonstrating groundbreaking technologies, design, and approaches for Aeon-R.

About the Role:

• Develop additive manufacturing processes to continuously improve manufacturing cost, quality, and lead time
• Produce additively manufactured components that rapidly enable high performance liquid propulsion hardware
• Holistically own and optimize the total manufacturing process including, design for additive, build file programing, manufacturing work instructions, and quality verification
• Develop, optimize, and productionize process parameters for various alloys and machine systems and develop tools and techniques to accelerate and automate that process
• Execute material failure investigations, conduct root cause analyses, and implement corrective actions
• Develop new tools, techniques, and applications that automate existing processes and standardize on performance-based benchmarks
• Support material and process team with characterization and qualification of various alloys

About You:

• Experience implementing new engineering processes in school projects, internships, and/or clubs
• Experience communicating technical information within a diverse team
• Experience with at least two of the following:
  • CAD
  • Design for additive manufacturing
  • GD&T 
• Exposure to concepts behind laser powder bed fusion, printer primary subsystems, and post-processes 
• 2+ years of experience working in aerospace, medical devices, or ISO environments
• 2+ years of experience in mechanical or materials engineering related roles
• 2+ years of experience working on metallic additive manufacturing
• Exposure to typical manufacturing execution systems (MES) and quality management systems 

Nice to haves but not required: 

• Advanced degree (MS) in Material Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy, Mechanical Engineering, or another related field
• Familiarity with processing large datasets and statistical data analysis software such as R, JMP, or Minitab
• Familiarity with design and operation of liquid propellent engine systems
• Serve as materials subject matter expert on powder bed fusion team
• Proficient at oriented programming (Python, JS, C#, or Java)
• Experience in leveraging API’s and real-time data sources to build applications in a production environment
• Developing APIs and building applications on them in a production environment
• Six Sigma/Lean manufacturing training