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 Integrated Performance teams ensure that our products work across all systems and disciplines, from trajectory design to aerodynamics to reliability analysis and beyond. Our groups size the Terran R rocket, design its missions for customer success, reliability, and reusability, and ensure that every system on the rocket and ground is engineered correctly for the demanding environments of launch, entry, and landing.
The Loads & Dynamics team works collaboratively with adjacent Flight Sciences teams, including Dynamic Environments, Aerodynamics, Thermal Systems, and Multibody Dynamics, and across the Stage, Propulsion, Launch, and GNC & Performance teams to develop robust vehicle, ground system, and component architectures, generate associated loads, maintain and improve related analysis tools, provide design and test guidance, and contribute to performance trades on time and budget while meeting our technical requirements. A high degree of autonomy along with an ability to prioritize work in our fast-paced environment is required.
About the Role:
- Serve as company technical authority for Loads and Dynamics, with ownership of relevant requirements, decisions, risks, criteria and verification activities; customer and range certification; and analysis methodology, tool sets, and workflows
- Lead development, execution, delivery, and validation efforts for Coupled Loads Analysis (CLA) and other relevant Dynamics analyses, including tooling and automation
- Establish and execute roadmaps for engineering analysis, testing, and software tool development in collaboration with engineering leadership
- Drive the design of Terran R system elements and operations to meet Loads and Dynamics criteria and to identify opportunities to improve performance, operability, reliability, and simplicity
- Hire, train, and coach analysts and technical leads to be hardware-focused, collaborative, and technically rigorous
- Work closely with Aero, GNC, and hardware teams to manage analysis inputs, outputs, and indicators to help ensure successful design and operability
- Drive maturation of relevant analysis processes, test and launch campaign operations, development and characterization testing, and data and results processing and communication
About You:
- An undergraduate degree in engineering or related technical field and 7+ years relevant experience
- 2+ years experience leading technical teams
- Experience in a dynamics role from concept through V&V, certification, and operations on an integrated vehicle program
- Experience structuring, negotiating, executing, and delivering complex analysis projects to hardware teams and certification authorities
Nice to haves but not required:
- A graduate degree (MS) in engineering or related field and 10+ years relevant experience
- Experience leading anomaly resolutions and failure investigations
- Experience leading an engineering analysis team through a full program lifecycle
- Experience with launch and entry vehicles
- Experience developing analysis toolsets/workflows using both custom and commercial software
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.
Hiring Range:
$165,000—$186,000 USD
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.
