Staff Stage Development Engineer, Vehicle Systems and Test
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 on the Vehicle Systems and Integrated Test team in Vehicle Engineering, which is the focal point for integrating stages and vehicles throughout their entire lifecycle. The team specializes in cross-functional vehicle development, designing for operability, defining Concepts of Operations, and solving complex, first-time challenges that balance execution speed with risk. This specific role is for a Stage Responsible Engineer (RE) for integrated vehicle testing. The engineer will collaborate with every function across the company to design, build, test, fly, recover, and reuse Terran R.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field and 8+ years of relevant experience
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Technical aptitude and basic understanding of all functional disciplines (Mechanical, Fluids, and & Electrical engineering)
Nice To Haves
- Graduate degree in engineering or related field and 10+ years of relevant experience
- Act with ownership, demonstrating a high level of responsibility over the resulting outcomes
- Proven experience in design, manufacturing, assembly, and testing of complex aerospace systems
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex technical problems into simple concepts for a broader audience
- Leadership or coordination experience in a multidisciplinary engineering project and demonstrated ability to lead by influence and collaborate with technical owners
Responsibilities
- Own Stage test campaigns end-to-end: Develop test plans with product owners, execute campaigns at Stennis, write test sequences, review data, sit console for hotfire tests, and work hands-on with hardware
- Troubleshooting technical challenges in real-time - Drive systems integration: Perform requirements decomposition, develop verification activities at vehicle/system/unit levels, and execute operational plans and CONOPs for test, hotfire, and launch campaigns
- Balance risk and execution: Lead risk adjudication and mitigation planning while driving systems through qualification, acceptance, and hotfire test campaigns
- Support cross-functional systems work: Subsystem troubleshooting, partner investigations, engine analysis/simulation, trade studies, and more
- Travel to test and launch sites with flexibility for shifted schedules and weekend work during critical milestones
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
