Senior Manager, Vehicle Fluids Analysis

The role

You will manage a fluids analysis team providing technical guidance for hardware design and operations. You will perform thermal-fluid calculations and develop CFD analyses for complex vehicle problems.

What you will do

• Manage a high-performing fluids analysis team aligned with program milestones
• Define, scope, and schedule required analyses to support program execution
• Ensure analysis fidelity is appropriate for each phase of development
• Oversee resource planning and analysis progression to meet program timelines
• Set clear team goals and drive accountability
• Perform thermal-fluid calculations to size and design compressible and incompressible systems
• Develop and execute CFD analyses for complex vehicle problems
• Validate and quantify uncertainty in analysis models using literature and test data
• Mature internal tools and methodologies for predicting fluids behavior
• Mentor engineers and guide hardware owners

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field
• 10+ years of relevant experience across at least 1 aerospace vehicle program lifecycle
• 5+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering successful hardware on complex, cross-functional projects
• Demonstrated mentoring and technical leadership skills
• Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language for scientific computing and automated test/simulation data analysis
• Experience performing 1D modeling of compressible and incompressible flow using hand calculations or fluid network analysis tools (e.g. GFSSP, FloCAD, or equivalent)
• Experience in architecting and executing industry-standard CFD tools (e.g. STAR-CCM+, Fluent, FLOW-3D, or equivalent) and workflows to inform hardware design

Nice to have

• Experience building volume of fluid and/or internal compressible flow CFD models
• Experience developing simulation toolsets and workflows, e.g. for HPC

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.