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Salary: USD 132,000 - 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 at a pivotal moment where decisions made today on trades, architecture, and process will shape not just the first launch but the long-term trajectory of the organization.
The Systems Engineering team ensures that 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—enabling faster, more informed development across the program. 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.
As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will lead the creation, development, streamlining, and elimination of Systems Engineering processes across the company to support an efficient, product-focused culture. Daily activities include finding pain points with existing processes and proposing solutions, proactively working with the Software & IT department to brainstorm solutions and help set priorities, and prototyping, implementing, and rolling out processes, tools, and automation that enable better design and test collaboration across the company. You'll be empowered to lead high-impact efforts and trusted to drive improvements across the organization.
REQUIREMENTS:
- BS in Engineering or related field
- 5+ years of systems engineering experience
- Successful development and roll-out of department or company-wide processes
- Proven ability to work with internal IT and DevOps teams to create tools
- At least 1 full lifecycle experience, from concept to completion, for either process development or tool development
NICE TO HAVES:
- Graduate degree (MS) in engineering or related field
- Hands-on experience in the design, integration, test, and operation of complex systems
- Scripting experience
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
