Manager, Vehicle Fluids (Mechanical)

The role

You will lead a fluids product team responsible for fluid system architecture and function across the vehicle. You will guide hardware design, system analysis, manufacturing, validation, and operations using expertise in system architecture and fluid thermodynamics.

What you will do

• Manage a high-performing fluids product team and execute against program milestones
• Define, scope and schedule stage-level fluid architecture, requirements and documentation
• Lead cross-functional interface definitions and negotiations with partner vehicle teams
• Set clear team goals and drive accountability
• Assist with sizing and fluid 1D steady-state thermofluids analysis
• Define development, qualification, and acceptance testing scopes
• Participate in concept of Operations (CONOPS) development and operation data review
• Mentor engineers and guide hardware owners

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field
• +7 years of relevant experience across at least 1 aerospace vehicle program lifecycle
• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering successful hardware on complex, cross-functional projects
• Demonstrated mentoring and technical leadership skills
• Strong background in fluid system architecture, operations and application of engineering fundamentals in system design, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer
• Proficient with one or more fluid or thermal modeling tools for internal compressible and incompressible fluid analysis
• Experience using programming languages such as Matlab, Python, or C++ for data analysis or modeling
• Direct experience designing or operating launch vehicle or spacecraft fluid or propulsion systems

Nice to have

• Experience with certification of a vehicle fluid system for NSSL and/or range certification

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.