Senior Manager, Turbomachinery Engineering

The role

You will lead a large team through the design, analysis, and development of all turbomachinery products. You will set team and department-wide roadmaps to support the development of Terran-R.

What you will do

• Lead the team through the design, analysis, and development of all turbomachinery products
• Manage a large team spanning many highly technical disciplines
• Shape how turbomachinery is designed, developed, and evaluated
• Set team and department-wide roadmaps to support Terran-R development
• Lead collaborative projects to completion
• Drive technical excellence
• Foster talent growth
• Manage performance
• Lead recruitment efforts

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering, technology, or mathematics field
• 12+ years of relevant engineering experience in a complex system development environment
• Experience leading and developing a high-performing engineering team by driving technical excellence, fostering talent growth, managing performance, and leading recruitment efforts
• Experience with turbomachinery development
• Experience applying fluid, thermal, structural, and mechanical design fundamentals
• Demonstrated drive to deliver on ambitious schedules

Nice to have

• Masters or doctorate degree in a relevant technical field
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and associated commercial tools
• Experience with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and associated commercial tools
• Experience with computer aided design (CAD) software
• Experience designing and analyzing turbomachinery components including inducers, impellers, turbines, diffusers, bearings and seals, etc.
• Experience developing turbopumps for liquid propulsion rocket engines
• Experience working in a flight development program

Benefits

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

About the company

Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. The company is developing the Terran R vehicle to deliver customer payloads to orbit.