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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. You'll join the Engine Systems & Test Team as a Senior Propulsion Test Engineer, serving as the Responsible Engineer for propulsion test articles.
In the test portion of your role, you will develop test plans in collaboration with product owners and execute test campaigns with the Stennis test team, troubleshooting technical challenges along the way. You'll own the exploratory operation of new and existing test article designs, diving deep into evaluation of test hardware behavior in support of continuous engine development and certification. The role is highly varied day-to-day and can include writing test sequences, reviewing data, hands-on work with test articles, writing code, sitting console for hotfire tests, designing tooling, and more.
Most test roles also involve systems work. On this side, you may support engine subsystem troubleshooting, partner team product investigations, engine system analysis and simulation, trade studies, and related activities. You'll take ownership of projects to increase collective efficiency.
As the vehicle development program progresses, you may have opportunities to be involved in stage test and flight campaigns—including sitting console for launch operations, defining stage test objectives, and defining flight concepts of operations (CONOPS).
You should be a self-starter capable of leading collaborative projects with autonomy and ownership. You'll collaborate across teams—component engineers, manufacturing, Stennis test team, and Cape launch team—to deliver engines that will successfully propel the Terran rocket to orbit. This is an opportunity to shape decisions and see your work come to life in record time at a critical moment in the company's development.
