Senior Automation & Controls System Engineer

Long Beach, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 133000 - 170500

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Relativity Space were building rockets to serve todays needs and tomorrows breakthroughs. OurTerran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit meeting the growing demand for launchcapacity. But thats just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock newopportunities to advance science exploration and innovation pioneering progress that reaches beyondthe known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy ownership and impact exist at every level. Here youre not just executing tasks; youre solving problems that havent been solved before helping develop a rocket a factory and a business from the ground up. Whether youre in propulsion manufacturing software avionics or a corporate function youll 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 were writing together. Nowis a unique moment in time where its early enough to leave your mark on the product the process andthe culture but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The mostmeaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

The Tooling and Factory Automation team sits at the intersection of design manufacturing and automation making everything from large-scale structural fixtures to small tools that directly enable Terran Rs production. As a design group embedded within the manufacturing organization we dig deep into the needs of our internal partners to understand root problems propose solutions and deliver hardware to help build faster scale smarter and work better. The team is also at the forefront of Relativitys growing factory automation efforts an increasingly critical part of scaling production of Terran R at existing and future facilities. Youll have the autonomy to make decisions field solutions and see them in action on the factory floor. Ultimately youre not just designing tools or automated processes; youre defining how rockets and factories get built.

About the Role:

As a Senior Automation Control Systems engineer you will be responsible for the technical leadership and growing a team dedicated to building and expanding factory automation within the manufacturing organization. Additional responsibilities include architecting automation solutions for the manufacturing organization. The projects you work on will provide solutions across the factory ranging from quick turn interim development setups to large permanent infrastructure. You will work in collaboration with mechanical manufacturing and design engineers to develop solutions tailored to a broad range of applications and manufacturing processes. Once your hardware is built you will also own implementation working closely with technicians operators and end users - including writing and debugging control software.

Your projects will span a variety of construction methods sizes and applications. These could include anything from simple data displays to large multi axis motion control equipment. The kinds of projects you will work on may include:

Driving the technical direction of factory automation in the manufacturing group
Architecting factory automation solutions to improve speed quality reliability and efficiency in the manufacturing process
Large scale multi axis custom CNC based systems
Robotic based assembly and inspection equipment

About You:

Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field
6 years of experience developing activating and troubleshooting CNC (Fanuc Siemens) robotic (Fanuc Kuka Abb etc.) or automated systems (Beckhoff etc.)
Experience designing project managing and executing on robotic and automation systems in a rate production or factory setting
Experience writing software for industry standard control systems (CNC PLCs motor drives)
Demonstrated ability to design and implement industrial safety systems including risk assessments
Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate technical risks in complex systems

Nice to haves but not required:

Experience producing electrical and pneumatics documentation
Experience writing control software for Siemens CNCs/PLCs
Experience with Kuka Fanuc ABB or similar robotics control systems
Experience with communications methods such as but not limited to Profinet Ethernet EtherCAT and CANbus.

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.

Hiring Range:

$133000 - $170500 USD

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.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC