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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 company is developing a rocket, factory, and business from the ground up, with a culture emphasizing autonomy, ownership, and impact at every level.
The Structures and Mechanisms team is responsible for the full design, build, and test lifecycle of Terran R's integrated structures and flight mechanisms. Team members work on multiple parts across subsystems and are empowered to make decisions that directly impact flight hardware. The team shares design principles, tools, and an integrated approach providing comprehensive vehicle understanding.
In this role, you will design parts and systems from early conceptualization through full release, supporting manufacturing for primary and secondary structures across all stages of the Terran R rocket. You will think creatively to optimize part geometry, ensure assembly packaging, prevent interferences and excessive gapping, reduce mass, and make parts fully manufacturable. Key responsibilities include:
• Design and develop piece parts, assemblies, and systems from early conceptualization through full initial release, working with large machined metallic components, sheet metal, composites, formed panels, and more
• Integrate critical design-for-manufacturing choices in direct coordination with the manufacturing engineering team
• Perform packaging assessment of systems—resolve interferences, perform tolerance stack analyses, validate hardware stacks and fastener selections, integrate nominal gapping and shimming strategies
• Support BOM and configuration management of various systems across multiple vehicles
• Create and release drawings as part of system release sprints post-CDR, incorporating GD&T as primary definition
• On a weekly basis, design flight components for Terran R using NX/TeamCenter, create and release drawings, and support fabrication of components
• Use strong organizational skills to properly document work and present recommendations when decisions are needed
You must be self-motivated, adaptable, and able to lead your own projects to completion in a fast-paced environment. You will have significant mechanical or structural design experience and a proven track record completing collaborative projects effectively.
REQUIREMENTS:
• 2+ years of experience in a design engineering role
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline
• Experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, CATIA, Creo, or SOLIDWORKS
• Fundamental knowledge of structures strength, stability, and fatigue failure mechanisms
NICE TO HAVES:
• 1+ years of experience with NX/Teamcenter PLM
• 1+ years of experience with GD&T and drafting
