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Salary: USD 104,000 - 156,000 / 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 Integrated Performance team owns the holistic view of how Terran R comes together, ensuring every system achieves ambitious objectives. The Integrated Analysis group accelerates hardware engineering via advanced analysis and cutting-edge tools, working on complex structures analyses across all hardware teams and developing tools and methods to unlock deeper insight in less time—reducing weight, improving robustness, and delivering flight-ready hardware to the launch pad.
In this role, you will drive architecture, sizing, and development of structures including tanks, thrust structures, mechanisms, trays, lines, and other components in collaboration with peer technical teams. You will build, execute, and validate structures analyses at the component, system, and vehicle level, including relevant tool development and automation. You will develop novel structural analysis techniques for reusable launch vehicles and direct design and development engineers in the successful application of structural mechanics and analysis principles to achieve system and component requirements. You will also develop and execute tests to support structures development and qualification, including hands-on work like test article integration, instrumentation setup, and data processing.
The role offers meaningful impact at a unique moment: early enough to leave your mark on the product, process, and culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. You will work within a team structure that is large enough to support complex development yet small enough that individual contributors have meaningful impact. Collaboration across teams and hands-on engagement with hardware and operations are core to the position.
**Requirements:**
- Undergraduate degree in Engineering or a related discipline
- 2+ years experience in an analysis role
- Working knowledge of structural analysis and test (from hand calculations to advanced numerical analysis, e.g., nonlinear buckling or explicit dynamics)
- Fundamental knowledge of metallic structure behavior and failure modes like strength, stability, and fatigue
- Proficiency in a commercial aerospace finite element package (e.g., Nastran, Abaqus) and a relevant pre/post-processor like Femap
- Proficiency with an engineering scripting language like Python or MATLAB
**Nice to haves:**
- Graduate degree in Engineering or a related discipline
- 5+ years experience in an analysis role
- Experience across one or more full product lifecycles of an integrated vehicle
- Graduate education in structural mechanics, computer science, or numerical methods
- Experience with Abaqus or ANSA
