Vehicle Fluids Engineer II

The role

This person will be responsible for the mechanical and structural implementation of stage fluid systems for the Terran R launch vehicle. They will perform fluids routing, hardware mounting design, and mechanical verification analysis.

What you will do

• Fluids routing and design trade studies
• Fluids hardware mounting structure design
• Fluid system hardware mechanical verification analysis including both hand calcs and FEA
• Structural design of mounting hardware for various fluid system component and routing
• Incorporate 3D printing methods and in fluid system mechanical design
• Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA)

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or an equivalent engineering discipline
• 2+ years mechanical design experience
• Experience with a commercial CAD package (NX, CREO, Solidworks)
• Experience with GD&T, manufacturing, and interacting with vendors
• Experience with fluid system components (fittings, seals, valves, regulators, etc.) and system testing
• Experience with FEA tools to analyze structural margins

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.