Vehicle Structures Engineer I - 2026 Graduate

The role

You will perform the full design cycle for primary and secondary structures including conceptualization, design, analysis, manufacturing, and testing. You will design flight components for the Terran R vehicle using NX/TeamCenter and perform analysis using Nastran, ANSYS, or hand calculations.

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.
• Designing flight components for the Terran R vehicle using NX/TeamCenter.
• Performing analysis using Nastran, ANSYS and/or hand calculations.
• Creating and releasing drawings.
• Supporting fabrication of components.
• Owning design from requirements to production.

Required qualifications

• 0-2+ years of experience in a design engineering role.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline.
• 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

• 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

Before you apply

• Candidates should have completed their degree requirements and be available to begin full-time employment within 30–60 days of applying.

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.