Job Description
At Relativity Space we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science exploration and innovation pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy ownership and impact exist at every level. Here you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before helping develop a rocket a factory and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion manufacturing software avionics or a corporate function you’ll collaborate across teams shape decisions and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product the process and the culture but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The Stage Fluids team designs and delivers the propellant pressurant pneumatics and other fluid systems that turn structures into functioning rockets. The team has full ownership across design production test and flight maintaining a holistic view of Terran R focused not on isolated parts but integrated functionality. Working on-site at the factory means you’re never far from the hardware enabling rapid iteration and tight feedback loops across design and manufacturing. You won’t just be handed requirements: you’ll be expected to ask the right questions collaborate with partners across the company and ultimately find the best solutions for Terran R.
About the Role:
You will be a part of developing the architecture for the upcoming Terran R vehicle and will be responsible for charting the company’s path for gas storage on a reusable rocket- both near-term and long-term.
Here are some examples of projects you could be working on:
- Partnering with third-party vendors in the design and analysis of gas storage COPVs
- Working with other thermo-fluid engineers on vehicle gas system design and operation
- Establishing test campaigns for the qualification and acceptance of COPVs
- Performing tests and reviewing data
- Supporting integration COPVs on the rocket
- Selecting vetting and managing vendors
- Performing trade studies to improve gas storage solutions for the near future vehicles
- Assessing long-term COPV design and manufacturing plans
About You:
- Undergraduate degree in engineering or a technical discipline
- 5+ years of relevant technical experience
- Experience applying pressure vessel engineering fundamentals
- Experience applying knowledge of fluid and mechanical system design and operation
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience working with COPVs or other composite structures
- Experience in a creative and fast-paced development environment working with autonomy
- Experience with CAD
- Experience with launch vehicle systems
Hiring Ranges and Leveling:
- Engineer II: $104000 - $143000
- Senior Engineer: $148500 - $181500
- Staff Engineer: $164000 - $225500
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.
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.
If you need a reasonable accommodation please contact us at [email protected].
What We Do
Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket Terran R will deliver customer payloads to orbit meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science exploration and innovation pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Why Work With Us
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy ownership and impact exist at every level. Here you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before helping develop a rocket a factory and a business from the ground up.
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