Manager, Vehicle Structures Engineering

Relativity Space • Long Beach, CA

126d • $185,000 - $204,000

About The Position

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. But that’s just 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'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. Whether you’re in 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 stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early 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.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field
• 3+ years of technical leadership, hiring and performance management experience
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability and success in delivering complex products on time and budget with minimal guidance
• Fundamental knowledge of structures design, analysis, manufacturing and testing

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of technical leadership, hiring and performance management experience
• Experience in a startup or fast pace development environment
• Strong problem solver with great organization skills
• Experience with NX, Teamcenter, Ansys and Femap

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical authority for structures design in collaboration with Relativity’s engineering leadership
• Hire, train, guide and mentor structures & design engineers to be efficient, hardware-focused, collaborative, and technically rigorous
• Innovative conceptualization of structural load path, design of complex structures, definition of system packaging, guidance of test campaigns as well as support of manufacturing processes
• Review of static & dynamic load inputs, material properties, and additive process features development, along with establishing structural systems & subsystems requirements

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Generous PTO and sick leave policy
• Parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees