Relativity Space
Senior Bid Manager, Advanced Manufacturing
$122K–$182K
Long Beach, California, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in technical bidding, sales engineering, or application engineering within contract manufacturing, additive manufacturing, metal fabrication, or job shop environments.
About the job
Owns and scales the end-to-end bid process for advanced manufacturing work, from customer inquiry and technical assessment through costing, pricing, and proposal delivery.
What you'll do
- Lead RFQ/RFP responses, including feasibility, cost, risk, scheduling, and proposal delivery.
- Build repeatable estimating workflows and bid/no-bid frameworks; develop cost and price models for complex additively manufactured parts.
- Assess customer designs for manufacturability and support customer meetings, presentations, and contract negotiations.
What they ask for
- Strong hands-on manufacturing knowledge, including metal processes such as welding, machining, heat treatment, and post-processing.
- Ability to interpret engineering documents, assess design-for-manufacturing considerations, and translate customer requirements into internal technical requirements.
- Ability to build structured bidding systems and communicate with executives, engineers, and procurement teams.
- Ability to align engineering, operations, and commercial teams around feasibility, pricing, and schedules.
Nice to have
- Experience with Wire Arc Direct Energy Deposition (DED) or large-scale metal additive manufacturing.
- Manufacturing engineering, welding, metallurgy, defense or aerospace contract manufacturing, or early-stage manufacturing experience.
Pay
USD 122,000–182,000 base salary
Tools
Wire Arc Direct Energy Deposition (DED)
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