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Salary: USD 123,000 - 198,000 / 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 is developing a rocket, factory, and business from the ground up, with a culture emphasizing autonomy, ownership, and impact at every level.
The Systems Engineering team ensures Terran R comes together as a cohesive, high-performing, and scalable system. One team focuses on building tools and processes to manage requirements, track decisions, and identify and mitigate risk. The other team focuses on the vehicle itself, working across teams to ensure all subsystems function together as intended, burning down technical risk, and driving informed decisions at every stage of the vehicle lifecycle.
This role is on the Vehicle Systems and Integrated Test team in Vehicle Engineering—the focal point for integrating stages and vehicles throughout their entire lifecycle. You will specialize in cross-functional vehicle development, designing for operability, defining Concepts of Operations, and solving complex, first-time challenges that balance execution speed with risk.
Key responsibilities:
- Own stage test campaigns end-to-end: develop test plans with product owners, execute campaigns at Stennis, write test sequences, review data, sit console for hotfire tests, and work hands-on with hardware.
- Troubleshoot technical challenges in real-time and drive systems integration: perform requirements decomposition, develop verification activities at vehicle/system/unit levels, and execute operational plans and CONOPs for test, hotfire, and launch campaigns.
- Balance risk and execution: lead risk adjudication and mitigation planning while driving systems through qualification, acceptance, and hotfire test campaigns.
- Support cross-functional systems work: subsystem troubleshooting, partner investigations, engine analysis/simulation, trade studies, and more.
- Travel to test and launch sites with flexibility for shifted schedules and weekend work during critical milestones.
You will collaborate with every function across the company to design, build, test, fly, recover, and reuse Terran R. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role at a pivotal moment in the program, where decisions made today on trades, architecture, and process will shape not just the first launch, but the long-term trajectory of Relativity.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Technical aptitude and basic understanding of all functional disciplines (Mechanical, Fluids, and Electrical engineering).
NICE TO HAVES:
- Graduate degree in engineering or related field and 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Act with ownership, demonstrating a high level of responsibility over resulting outcomes.
- Proven experience in design, manufacturing, assembly, and testing of complex aerospace systems.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex technical problems into simple concepts for a broader audience.
- Leadership or coordination experience in a multidisciplinary engineering project and demonstrated ability to lead by influence and collaborate with technical owners.
