Senior Product Engineer

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.

Team:  

The Product team at Relativity Space is a small, dynamic group situated in the Vehicle Engineering organization specializing in cross-functional vehicle development trades, designing in operability, defining Concept of Operations, and determining vehicle verification activities. Our team is responsible for the integrated stages and vehicles. We act as the engineering focal for the vehicle throughout its lifecycle, consistently managing upstream and downstream impacts. We are experts at doing things for the first time, tackling the tough integrated problems, coordinating planning, setting engineering definition for operations, and finding the right balance between performance, launch/build rate, and reliability. We do this by determining requirements, verification events, tools, guidance, and processes all with operability in mind. On this team you'll work with every function of the company to help design, build, test, fly, recover, and reuse Terran R. 

What you’ll do: 

In this role you will be the main conduit between the design team and the manufacturing, operations and launch teams. You will support the build of the vehicle and quickly resolve integration issues. You will contribute to planning and execution of vehicle integrated tests, stage acceptance testing, and launch campaigns. You will provide guidance on subsystem designs to ensure they will integrate smoothly with interfacing subsystems including software. In addition to the manufacturing and operations focus, you will support or own projects that cross subsystem boundaries such as trade studies, interface coordination, or subsystem requirements development. You will also take ownership of projects of your own creation to increase our collective efficiency.

Example projects and responsibilities include the following:

• Determine vehicle build, test, and fly CONOPs and establish checkouts and success criteria for major ops
• Coordinate vehicle operational limits for test and launch
• Author and support integrated vehicle verification test plans
• Support subsystem development testing, vehicle checkouts and acceptance testing, and launch
• Define the details of stage readiness for shipment, test and launch and drive the program to those milestones on the shortest possible path.

What you need to know:  

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with proven ability to rapidly resolve interdisciplinary issues
• Technical depth in at least one of the key disciplines on the vehicle: structures, fluid systems, propulsion, avionics
• Project or work experience on a complex, cross-functional project from start to finish
• Experience and interest solving ambiguous problems and building the structure and tools for new products and processes
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated experience summarizing and communicating complex technical information to a wide audience
• Leadership or coordination experience in a multidisciplinary engineering project and demonstrated ability to lead by influence

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Test or operational experience with a complex system including mechanical hardware, electronics and software
• Full product life cycle experience with a new launch vehicle or spacecraft

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 c