Global Supply Chain Intern
Posted on 9/3/2025

Relativity Space
Compensation Overview
$32 - $40/hr
Long Beach, CA, USA
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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 Supply Chain team turns design intent into executable reality, balancing lead time, cost, complexity, and manufacturability to ensure we can build and scale Terran R. On this team, you're not just placing orders; you're actively shaping the solution. With full ownership across raw materials, capital equipment, and services, the role requires both strategic thinking and day-to-day execution. As the company scales, supply chain becomes increasingly central, working closely with engineering, quality, manufacturing, and more to make decisions that work for today but also for tomorrow. This is a team for those who want to operate at the intersection of technical ambition and business execution, driving tangible progress to keep the Terran R program on track.
About the Role
As a Supply Chain Intern at Relativity Space, you’ll gain hands-on experience in optimizing the end-to-end supply chain required to build the next latest commercial rocket. You’ll partner with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and operational leaders to support sourcing, planning, and execution while driving impactful projects. In this role, you will:
- Establish material planning parameters for BOM releases and maintain master data.
- Coordinate the planning and execution of sourcing activities (e.g., Requests for Quote).
- Manage purchase orders and supplier relationships to ensure on-time delivery performance.
- Identify and implement innovative solutions that improve process efficiency and sustainability.
- Lead a 12-week strategic project that creates measurable value for the team.
- Provide ad-hoc support across supply chain operations.
About You
- Current enrollment as an undergraduate or graduate student in a related field.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent communication and negotiation abilities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Nice to Haves but Not Required
- Experience with SQL, ERP, or supply chain planning systems.
- Knowledge of supplier management, sourcing, or procurement processes.
- Previous internship or project experience in aerospace, manufacturing, or hardware production.
- Familiarity with process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, etc.).
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.

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