Staff Materials & Processes Engineer, General Metallics
Relativity
- Long Beach, CA
- $150,000-194,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Serve as a responsible metallics M&P engineer for key Terran-R structures, mechanisms, fluid systems, and propulsion sub-systems
- Research, trade, and select conventional and novel materials and processes for various demanding applications
- Identify qualification criteria, test envelopes, and characterization campaigns
- Author, implement, and maintain M&P requirements, technical specifications, and engineering work standards
- Develop, control, and improve special processes
- Drive statistically-driven experimental design and process control initiatives
- Interface with:
- Materials engineering staff to identify, define, and fill technology gaps
- Laboratory staff to characterize materials and processes
- Designers to drive materials selection, allowables development, and detailed analysis
- Manufacturing engineering to control processes, troubleshoot issues and facilitate operations
- Quality assurance to disposition non-conformances and implement RCCAs
- Supply chain to specify vendor requirements, audit criteria, and process controls
- Product engineering to perform failure analysis and root cause and corrective action campaigns
- Leadership to elevate risks and overcome roadblocks
- Bachelor's degree in materials science or engineering, or related field
- 8+ years of experience relevant to the competencies listed below that demonstrate a strong foundation of materials science and engineering principles
- A commitment to accountability, collaboration, and execution
- A desire to establish and foster strong interdisciplinary relationships across the company
- An authentic, introspective, and inclusive mindset towards technical, interpersonal, and team growth and development
- (Leveling is flexible - please see other posting levels for expectations)
- Experience in aerospace and launch vehicle structures, mechanisms, fluid systems, and propulsion applications
- A thorough understanding of aluminums, Ni-based superalloys, stainless steels, titaniums, and refractories
- Knowledge of property-process-performance-structure relationships between primary and secondary manufacturing technologies, such as:
- Metallic additive processes (e.g. Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF), Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM), Laser Powder Direct Energy Deposition (LP-DED), etc)
- Metallic joining processes (e.g. fusion welding, friction stir welding, brazing, etc)
- Metallic primary production processes (e.g. forgings, castings, conventional wrought product forms, etc)
- Metallic secondary production processes (e.g. heat treatment, plating, conversion coatings, surface modification processes, etc)
- Familiarity with key M&P engineering disciplines, such as fracture mechanics, corrosion control, fluid compatibility, descriptive & inferential statistics, and failure analysis