Senior Vehicle Structures Design Engineer

The role

You will design parts and systems from early conceptualization through full release for the Terran R rocket. This includes designing piece parts, assemblies, and systems using various materials and supporting manufacturing.

What you will do

• Design and develop piece parts, assemblies, and systems from early conceptualization through full initial release
• Integrate design for manufacturing choices in coordination with manufacturing engineering
• Perform packaging assessment of systems
• Resolve interferences and perform tolerance stack analyses
• Validate hardware stacks and fastener selections
• Integrate nominal gapping and shimming strategies
• Support BOM and configuration management of various systems
• Create and release drawings incorporating GD&T
• Design flight components using NX/TeamCenter
• Support fabrication of components

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a design engineering role
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline
• Experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, CATIA, Creo, or SOLIDWORKS
• Fundamental knowledge of structures strength, stability and fatigue failure mechanisms
• Ability to work in the context of large assemblies and effectively navigate large vehicle BOM’s

Nice to have

• 2+ years experience with NX/Teamcenter PLM
• 3+ years 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.