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Salary: USD 136,000 - 204,000 / annual
Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. The Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting growing demand for launch capacity. The company operates with a culture of autonomy, ownership, and impact at every level, where employees solve novel problems and see their work come to life in record time.
The Integrated Performance team owns the holistic view of how Terran R comes together, ensuring every system on the vehicle and ground achieves ambitious objectives. The team works across the full launch system, from trajectory design and aerodynamics to reliability analysis, with direct influence on all parts of the product lifecycle from conceptual design to post-flight data review. The Dynamics team collaborates with Flight Sciences, Stage Engineering, Fluids, Propulsion, Avionics, Test, and Launch teams to develop analysis tools, test levels, vehicle and ground loads, and separation/deployment system architectures on time and budget.
In this role, you will own design considerations of secondary structures, avionics, and actuators for random vibration, acoustics, and aero buffet, developing methodology to analyze, test, and qualify designs. You will manage implementation and validation of Dynamics instrumentation and measurement systems in partnership with Avionics to ensure reliable test and flight data capture. You will proactively support test planning and execution related to vibration, shock, and acoustics, and develop payload interface vibration/shock/acoustic levels, interfacing with Mission Management and customers to determine spec compliance and improvement paths. You will lead collaboration with interfacing teams—aerodynamics, propulsion, GNC, reliability engineering, reusability/life analysis, and design criteria—on all issues pertaining to high-frequency vibrations. Additionally, you will mentor more junior analysts to be hardware-focused, collaborative, technically rigorous, and practical in their approach.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or related field
- Technical leadership, communication, and mentoring skills
- 3+ years of experience working on structural dynamics, random vibrations, and acoustics issues with demonstrated record of solving complex inter-disciplinary problems
- Expert-level knowledge in test vibration and shock test methods and applicable industry standards; ability to draw up shaker and shock test plans to qualify and accept aerospace parts
- Knowledge of random vibration theory behind standard codes like NASTRAN, ABAQUS, or ANSYS, and fluency in at least one tool
- High-speed instrumentation and signal processing expertise
- Demonstrated experience driving dynamics issues to closure across mechanical, fluids, or other domains
NICE TO HAVES:
- Master's degree or higher qualification
- Direct experience in Space Engineering domain working on structural dynamics analysis, test, and qualification through a full program cycle
