Senior Propulsion Engineer, Integrated Design Long , California

Senior Propulsion Engineer, Integrated Design

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 a culture where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. You will solve problems that haven’t been solved before, develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up, collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time.

The Propulsion team is focused on developing and delivering highly performant and manufacturable engines for Terran R. Engineers handle the entire lifecycle of their parts, from design through production to qualification and flight.

The Propulsion Integrated Design team owns the overall layout and packaging of Relativity’s engines, as well as the design and analysis of critical structural and fluids components.

Responsibilities include:

• Own overall engine layout and packaging, including conducting trade studies of different possible engine configurations
• Control and release the CAD/eBOM for top-level engine assemblies
• Design and analyze hardware such as the engine gimbal, cryogenic and hot propellant ducting, fluid manifolds, tubing and secondary structures
• Lead the development of new methods for manufacturing or testing critical flight hardware to improve performance, reliability, and/or cost
• Collaborate closely with partner teams:
  Manufacturing, Test and Vehicle Design

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering field and 5+ years of professional experience
• Demonstrated project or technical leadership skills
• Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals in structures, fluids, thermal, and mechanisms
• Experience designing, analyzing, assembling, and/or testing hardware

• Experience with Siemens NX and Teamcenter
• Experience in designing liquid propulsion components and systems
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and commercial tools such as Ansys, Abaqus, or Nastran
• Familiarity with aerospace standards (AS, NAS, SAE, etc.)

Hiring Range: $132,000 - $181,500 USD

Benefits:
Competitive salary and equity, generous PTO and sick leave, parental leave, annual learning and development stipend, and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.