Vehicle Fluids Engineer Intern
Listed on 2026-09-18
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Engineering
Mechanical Engineer
At Relativity Space,we’rebuilding 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. Butthat’sjust the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here,you'renot just executing tasks;you'resolving problems thathaven’tbeen solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’rein propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function,you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the storieswe’rewriting together.
Now is a unique moment in timewhereit’searly enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
The Stage Fluid steam designs and delivers the propellant,pressurant, pneumatics, and other fluid systems that turn structures into functioning rockets. The team has full ownership across design, production, test, and flight,maintaininga holistic view of Terran R, focused not on isolated parts but integrated functionality. Working on-site at the factory meansyou’renever far from the hardware, enabling rapid iteration and tight feedback loops across design and manufacturing.
Youwon’tjust behandedrequirements:you’llbe expected to ask the right questions, collaborate with partners across the company, and ultimately findthe best solutions for Terran R.
In this role, you will support for the mechanical and systems-level design and analysis for the stage fluid systems, ensuring a reliable and efficient operation of our Terran R launch vehicle, including:
Structural design of secondary structures supporting fluids hardware
Mechanical design validationutilizingFEA and/or hand calcs
Tube routing design and analysis
Fluids system analysis utilizing 1D Flow solvers and hand calcs
Current undergraduate or graduate student in mechanical or aerospace engineering or equivalent
Project or industry experience with a commercial CAD package (NX,Solidworks, etc...)
Project or industry experience with fluid system orcomponentdesign or operation
Ability to thrive with ambiguous and rapidly changingrequirements
Strong fundamentals in fluid dynamics, fluid mechanics, and thermal analysis
Project or industry experience with FEA software
Experience utilizing Python or other object-oriented programming languages
Experience with various manufacturing methods and processes
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis ofrace, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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