Data & Control Systems Engineer I

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 Factory Test team is responsible for hardware testing in our Long Beach facilities. We use our breadth of experience and collaborative engineering approach to support everything from very large structural tests to precise valve actuation. To that end, we design, build, and operate all test assets in Long Beach from initial concept to test execution. If you enjoy working on a multi-disciplinary team with a broad mandate and want to put hands-on hardware, then this is the team for you.

About the Role:

As a Data & Control Systems Engineer I, you will be responsible for integration, checkout, and operation of data systems at our Long Beach facilities. The projects you work on will run test systems across the factory ranging from quick and scrappy development test setups to large permanent infrastructure. You will be required to be hands on with the hardware, working side-by-side with our technician team to build and debug your projects. Once your hardware is built, you will also work closely with our operations and software teams to integrate it with our in-house data and controls platform – including writing and debugging automation to control real hardware.

You will be responsible for the hardware from build, activation, and ongoing operations with opportunities to take on design work. A significant amount of your time will be spent away from your desk, supporting the install and troubleshooting of systems on our various test stands. A typical day might include:

• Setup and checkout test stands for operations – ranging from testing critical valves that will be used to run the Aeon R engine, to putting Terran R through its paces during a full stage structural test, and everything in-between.
• Working to understand the needs of a new test campaign, then getting a data acquisition and controls systems setup, configured, checked, and ready to test – collecting the right data, at the right time, with the right context.
• Selection, integration, and configuration of instrumentation on a test stand.
• Design data acquisition and control systems for various test stands, including panel layouts, power and load analysis, fabrication drawings, and instrumentation lists.
• Solving a wide range of technical challenges, across broad ranges of timeframe, complexity, cost, and long-term impact.

About You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Electrical engineering fundamentals knowledge.
• Experience with signal generators, oscilloscopes, and other test equipment to verify hardware designs.
• Proven ownership, accountability, and success in delivering products with stakeholders.

Nice to haves but not required:  

• No previous aerospace experience is required for this position.
• Experience specifying, selecting, and integrating sensors and actuators such as pressure transducers, RTDs, strain gages, thermocouples, solenoid valves, accelerometers, microphones, etc.
• Experience with COTS data acquisition systems such as NI, Dewesoft, Beckhoff etc.
• Experience developing and tuning closed-loop control logic.
• Familiar with designing electrical control cabinets and wiring harnesses. 
• Familiar with scripting languages such as Python or MATLAB for preforming analysis or writing automation.

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.