Cad Specialist Iii

Company Overview:
At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity's industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth - where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.
Your journey with us is more than just a job - it's an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.
About the Team:
The Manufacturing team at Relativity Space is currently deep in laying the manufacturing groundwork and process development for Terran R, our next generation, re-useable rocket. This team has a wide variety of responsibilities-from determining the most efficient factory floor layout, to developing and implementing complex tooling and processes. The core of this team is interfacing with the vehicle engineering team to heavily influence the design of the rocket.
Overall, this team is critical to the development and initial builds of Terran R. This team pulls together the efforts of design, additive, vehicle, and manufacturing teams to deliver flight-ready vehicles for test and launch. To meet our goals, we will drive the product from design concept through the build to structural acceptance test, ensuring the team can move fast while still producing high quality, well understood products.
About the Role:
We are looking for a CAD Specialist who is primarily focused on generating and maintaining engineering definition for our manufacturing team to build vehicle assemblies. Your responsibility is working hand in hand with vehicle design engineers on generating part processing definition in the form of engineering models, BOMs, and CAD drawings in Siemens NX and managing product lifecycle in Siemens TeamCenter. You will also design mechanical piece parts and assemblies to support development and perform revisions to existing 3D models and 2D drawings as needed. You will be the liaison between design engineering and manufacturing engineering, generating in-process definition to take our final vehicle design and translating into manufacturable states for our vehicle workcenters. Explicit duties to include:

• Develop process for manufacturing state definition generation, review, and implementation into the Terran R production system.
• Use discretion and technical judgment to provide input for manufacturability of vehicle parts and assemblies.
• Implement geometric dimensioning and tolerancing into the Terran R vehicle design.
• Design 3D mechanical models of parts and assemblies used on the vehicle.
• Design manufacturing-state CAD geometry for items or assemblies that exist physically but do not currently exist in CAD and release them in PLM.
• Configure (organize, structure, and indent) the BOM to align with the manufacturing build flow ensuring the pertinent engineering definition is provided at key manufacturing points.
• Generate 2D drawings for parts and assemblies using drafting standards and application of GD&T in m-state form for the manufacturing team.
• Prepare data for release through PLM system and ensure conformance to Relativity's quality standards (i.e., ensure item groups, assigned materials, and traceability types are correct, for instance)
• Make PLM coordinated revisions to existing 3D models and 2D drawings; generate engineering change orders to capture revision details and inform downstream customers of changes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including vehicle engineering, manufacturing engineering, quality engineering, and enterprise applications systems, to standardize and optimize our systems.
• Create project status reports to communicate progress and roadblocks.

Your main deliverables will be:

• Process definition for generating manufacturing-state design artifacts to support high-rate production.
• CAD/CAM assembly exploded views for use in work instructions, including highlights of components for clarity with applicable drawing notes.
• Engineering drawings with Bills of Material (BOMs).
• Technical documentation for manufacturing processing of vehicle parts.

About You:

• 3+ years of experience with assembly modelling in Siemens NX or equivalent (Catia, Solidworks, Fusion 360)
• 3+ years of experience with reading and interpreting technical documents and/or drawings
• 3+ years of experience geometric dimensioning and tolerancing
• 3+ years of experience with structural design principles for build and manufacturing
• Competence in Microsoft office tools (Outlook, Excel and Powerpoint)
• Strong collaborative ability
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to be a self-starter and operate with minimal direction

Nice to haves but not required:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering highly preferred
• Mastery of Siemens TeamCenter PLM OR mastery of a similar PLM tool and an ability to rapidly learn
• Familiarity with AS9100 or ISO9001
• Experience with structures manufacturing engineering processes (CNC machining, forming, welding)

Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous vacation policy, an annual L&D stipend and more!
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.
The below-range represents Relativity Space's current good-faith pay scale for this role. Relativity Space reserves the right to modify or update this range at any time.
Compensation is only one part of our entire total rewards package. To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here: https://px.sequoia.com/relativityspace
Hiring Range:
$48.25 - $61.60 USD