Senior Vehicle Structures Design Engineer

Senior Vehicle Structures Design Engineer

Long Beach, California

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up.

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, not just within a single subsystem, and are empowered to make decisions that directly impact flight hardware.

To be successful in this role, you should be self‑motivated, adaptable, and able to complete projects in a fast‑paced environment. You will need strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with peers and leadership. You will support cross‑functional trade & impact studies, coordinate changes, and resolve integration and development issues between engineering teams.

• Design vehicle structures at various maturity phases: conceptual to critical design
• Initial drawing creation and execute revisions due to engineering or manufacturing changes
• Ownership of the vehicle BOM configurations, mass inputs, and part release schedule
• Define and manage interfaces between vehicle subsystems using appropriate control documents & models
• Develop design process improvements via simplification or automation

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline
• 5+ years of related experience
• Experience designing and managing large CAD assemblies and associated drawings
• Fundamental knowledge of mechanical engineering design, analysis, manufacturing, and testing
• Experience with ASME Y14.100, Y14.5, Y14.41
• Experience using NX and Teamcenter

• Demonstrated development, packaging and configuration management experience on technically complex hardware products
• Knowledge of aerospace vehicle fabrication and assembly techniques
• Demonstrated interpersonal, communication and project management skills

Hiring range: $148,500 - $181,500 USD. Compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, generous PTO and sick leave, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.