Vehicle Fluid Systems Engineer II

The role

You will be responsible for the fluid system architecture and function for a given vehicle fluid subsystem. You will apply expertise in system architecture, systems operations, and fluid thermodynamics applications to guide hardware design, system analysis, manufacturing, validation and operations.

What you will do

• Own the vehicle fluid subsystem architecture and schematics, including system control scheme, system and component selection and sizing
• Conducting fluid and thermal analyses, including system sizing and characterization using a variety of base analytical methods
• Leading and participating in system and hardware design and manufacturing reviews
• Defining and supporting test objectives and test campaigns to validate system design, system models and overall system performance
• Supporting integrated vehicle testing and launch

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Mechanical Engineering or relevant)
• 2+ years of experience working with fluids systems
• Experience applying engineering fundamentals in system design, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer
• Experience with one or more fluid or thermal modeling tools for internal compressible and incompressible analysis
• Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language for scientific computing and automated test/simulation data analysis

Nice to have

• Experience with launch vehicles and spacecraft

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.