Sobre esta vaga de Senior Avionics Source Inspector, Harness, First Shift na Relativity Space
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.
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 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.
About the Team:
The Reliability team at Relativity Space ensures quality is built into every stage of the Terran R design and production process, embedding reliability from the very beginning. The team works directly with design, manufacturing, test, and launch teams to stay close to the hardware, understand constraints, and proactively shape decisions. As the program moves from development into production and scaled operations, this is the time to establish the right processes, controls, and inspections without slowing progress. The team plays a key role in balancing risk, fostering a culture of ownership, and making sure speed never comes at the cost of reliability. Success means creating a quality system that scales with the Terran R program and Relativity as a whole.
This is a first-shift position with a standard schedule of Monday through Friday, 5:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. PT. The role is structured around a 50-hour workweek, including 10 guaranteed overtime hours each week.
About the Role:
- Perform in-process and final inspection at onsite supplier facilities and internal cable and harness assembly manufacturing.
- Travel approximately 80% of the time to supplier sites, both locally and domestically, to perform source inspections, conduct audits, and support supplier quality and compliance activities.
- Maintain detailed inspection records and document nonconformances.
- Stay current with industry standards, regulations, and best practices related to quality assurance and inspection processes.
- Review purchase orders, certificates of conformance, test reports, material traceability, and shipping documentation for accuracy.
- Verify that parts match engineering blueprints, wire schematics, and bill of materials.
- Conduct electrical continuity and resistance tests.
About You:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience as a cable and harness inspector or assembler in an electronics manufacturing environment, preferably in a quality function.
- Ability to travel up to 50 - 80%
- Knowledge of cable and harness assembly and inspection following NASA-STD-8739.4 and/or IPC-A-620 standards.
- Experienced in conducting continuity tests using DMM and other portable measuring devices
- Ability to read and interpret schematics, assembly drawings, and internal specifications.
- Familiarity with avionics systems, components, and installations is essential, with the ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical manuals, and specifications.
- A high level of attention to detail is crucial for conducting thorough inspections and ensuring compliance with quality standards and regulations.
Nice to haves but not required:
- Well-versed in process development and first-time quality efforts
- Highly organized and able to provide structure and direction to the previously undefined
- Experience leading projects or teams, even if not in a formal leadership role, demonstrating the ability to take initiative and drive quality improvement efforts
- Certified or previously certified in IPC-A-620 or IPC-A-610 or J-STD-001
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].
Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.
