Tooling Engineer Intern

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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 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 R’s 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 Relativity’s growing factory automation efforts, an increasingly critical part of scaling production of Terran R at existing and future facilities. You’ll have the autonomy to make decisions, field solutions, and see them in action on the factory floor. Ultimately, you’re not just designing tools or automated processes; you’re defining how rockets and factories get built.

About The Role

• Develop tooling to support the manufacturing and integration teams for building Terran R and the AeonR engine
• Own projects from cradle to grave: concepting, design, analysis, and manufacturing
• Handle a wide range of technical problems including: automating manufacturing processes, developing robotic systems, creating test fixtures, and building and supporting custom machines.
• Work across multiple teams to develop requirements, define timelines, and get buyoff on design decisions.

About You

• Obtaining BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field. We believe varied perspectives & backgrounds strengthen our team. Prior experience in aerospace is not required
• Strong fundamentals of electric circuits (DC, AC and Motor circuits)
• Knowledge in programming (Python, C++, OpenPLC) and Boolean logic
• Strong communication and organizational skills

Nice To Haves But Not Required

• Extracurricular engineering project experience (Rocket Team, Formula SAE, Baja, etc.)
• Experience using Programmable Logic Controllers (Beckhoff preferred) and developing Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs).

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. "