GNC Engineer I - 2025 New Grad

About the Team: 

Relativity’s 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 and entry. Recently, we completed the preliminary design and analysis of Terran R including Relativity’s first-ever work on launch vehicle reusability, spanning advanced trajectory simulations, wind tunnel testing, and structures analysis, among many other projects.

About the Role:

You will work closely with a multidisciplinary vehicle engineering team to develop control and guidance solutions, assess the impact of designs on vehicle controllability and performance, work with the flight software team to implement control algorithms and navigation solutions into Terran R, and make recommendations for changing vehicle configuration to meet controllability and performance goals. Additionally, you will support ground and flight tests for the Terran R launch vehicle.

About You:

In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to lead their own projects into completion. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with other key groups.

• An undergraduate or graduate degree (BS/MS/PhD) in engineering or related discipline
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and intense start-up environment
• Ability to complete projects with ownership of end-to-end solutions with a high degree of independence
• Experience with C++ or Python

Nice to haves but not required:  

• A graduate degree (MS/PhD) in engineering or related discipline
• Internship experience working on GNC solutions in aerospace
• Prior work in a startup or agile development environment
• Experience in control systems, orbital mechanics, classical dynamics, aerodynamics, sensors and actuators, and modeling and simulation