Senior Propulsion Engineer, Engine Systems Design & Analysis
Long Beach, CaliforniaFull-TimeSeniorDesign / Creative
Skills
Intro
- At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
- Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
- Own overall engine layout and packaging, including conducting layout trade studies of different possible engine configurations
- Control and release the CAD/eBOM for top-level engine assemblies.
- Design and analyze hardware such as the engine gimbal, cryogenic and hot propellant ducting, fluid manifolds, tubing and secondary structures
- Lead the development of new methods for manufacturing or testing critical flight hardware to improve performance, reliability, and/or cost
- Collaborate closely with our partner teams: Manufacturing, Test and Vehicle Design
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering field and 5+ years of professional experience
- Demonstrated project/technical leadership skills
- Strong understanding of engineering fundamentals in structures, fluids, thermal, and mechanisms
- Experience designing, analyzing, assembling, and/or testing hardware
- CAD skills (any platform)
- Experience with Siemens NX and Teamcenter, specifically
- Experience in the design of liquid propulsion components and systems
- Experience with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and commercial tools such as Ansys, Abaqus, or Nastran
- Familiarity with aerospace standards (AS, NAS, SAE, etc.)
- At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
