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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 Stage Fluids team designs and delivers propellant, pressurant, pneumatics, and other fluid systems that turn structures into functioning rockets.
As the Stage Fluids Analysis Manager, you will lead a team of analysts providing essential technical guidance for hardware design and operations across fluid dynamics and thermal systems. You will apply deep expertise in internal flow and thermal analysis to guide component, systems, propulsion, operations, and guidance/navigation/control teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage a high-performing fluids analysis team aligned with program milestones
- Define, scope, and schedule required analyses to support program execution
- Ensure analysis fidelity is appropriate for each phase of development
- Oversee resource planning and analysis progression to meet program timelines
- Set clear team goals and drive accountability
- Perform thermal-fluid calculations to size and design compressible and incompressible systems using hand calculations, custom scripts, network solvers, and CFD models
- Develop and execute CFD analyses for complex vehicle problems
The Stage Fluids team has full ownership across design, production, test, and flight, maintaining a holistic view of Terran R focused on integrated functionality. Working on-site at the factory means you're never far from hardware, enabling rapid iteration and tight feedback loops across design and manufacturing. You'll be expected to ask the right questions, collaborate across the company, and find the best solutions for Terran R.
