Vehicle Structures Design Engineering Intern

Relativity Space InternshipsLong Beach, CA
114d$32 - $40

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

  • Experience working on an engineering team/project designing and building hardware
  • 1-2 years established CAD experience (SolidWorks, NX, CATIA, Fusion 360, etc.)
  • Demonstrates fundamental engineering principles and integrating them into design decisions
  • Able to work in large assemblies and navigate/manage large BOM's
  • Excitement to work on rockets and be onsite with real-world hardware

Nice To Haves

  • Experience on a rocket team
  • 1+ years experience with NX/Teamcenter PLM
  • 1+ years experience with GD&T and drafting

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop piece parts, assemblies, and systems from early conceptualization up through full initial release – working with large machined metallic components, sheet metal, composites, formed panels, and more
  • Integrate critical design for manufacturing choices in direct coordination with the manufacturing engineering team
  • Perform packaging assessment of systems – resolve interferences, perform tolerance stack analyses, validate hardware stacks and fastener selections, integrate nominal gapping and shimming strategies, and more
  • Support BOM and configuration management of various systems across multiple vehicles
  • Create and release drawings as part of system release sprints post-CDR, including incorporating GD&T as primary definition

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

Entry Level

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Number of Employees

1,001-5,000 employees

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