Staff Structures Engineer (Terran-R Vehicle)

The role

You will perform the full design cycle for primary and secondary structures of the Terran R vehicle. This includes conceptualization, design, analysis, manufacturing, and testing of components like propellant tanks and thrust structures.

What you will do

• Innovative conceptualization of structural load path, design for complex structures and adjacent system packaging.
• Review of static & dynamic load inputs, material properties & test as well as structural systems & subsystems requirements.
• Analysis and sizing of flight structures to ensure timely design reviews and drawing release.
• Develop and support hardware test campaigns, including test integration, operation and result evaluation.
• Support manufacturing process development.
• Design flight components using NX/TeamCenter.
• Perform analysis using Nastran, ANSYS and/or hand calculations.
• Create and release drawings.
• Support fabrication of components.
• Document work and present recommendations.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a design engineering role.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical discipline
• Significant experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, Creo, or Solidworks
• Working knowledge of structural analysis (hand calculation, Finite Elements Methods and industry tools) and test
• Fundamental knowledge of structures strength, stability and fatigue failure mechanisms.
• Fundamental knowledge of additive and traditional manufacturing processes
• Full life cycle project ownership experience

Nice to have

• 8+ years of mechanical or structural design & analysis experience.
• Extensive experience with NX/TeamCenter.
• Expertise using Nastran and ANSYS.
• Experience with GD&T and drafting.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and 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.