Senior COPV Engineer
About The Position
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 the growing demand for launch capacity. This role is part of the Stage Fluids team, which 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, maintaining a holistic view of Terran R, focused not on isolated parts but integrated functionality. Working on-site at the factory enables rapid iteration and tight feedback loops across design and manufacturing. The Senior COPV Engineer will be part of developing the architecture for the upcoming Terran R vehicle and will be responsible for charting the company’s path for gas storage on a reusable rocket, both near-term and long-term. Projects may include partnering with third-party vendors in the design and analysis of gas storage COPVs, working with other thermo-fluid engineers on vehicle gas system design and operation, establishing test campaigns for the qualification and acceptance of COPVs, performing tests and reviewing data, supporting integration of COPVs on the rocket, selecting, vetting, and managing vendors, performing trade studies to improve gas storage solutions, and assessing long-term COPV design and manufacturing plans.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in engineering or a technical discipline
- 5+ years of relevant technical experience
- Experience applying pressure vessel engineering fundamentals
- Experience applying knowledge of fluid and mechanical system design and operation
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with COPVs or other composite structures
- Experience in a creative and fast-paced development environment, working with autonomy
- Experience with CAD
- Experience with launch vehicle systems
Responsibilities
- Partnering with third-party vendors in the design and analysis of gas storage COPVs
- Working with other thermo-fluid engineers on vehicle gas system design and operation
- Establishing test campaigns for the qualification and acceptance of COPVs
- Performing tests and reviewing data
- Supporting integration COPVs on the rocket
- Selecting, vetting, and managing vendors
- Performing trade studies to improve gas storage solutions for the near future vehicles
- Assessing long-term COPV design and manufacturing plans
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Generous PTO and sick leave policy
- Parental leave
- Annual learning and development stipend
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
