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Relativity Space · 1 day ago

Staff Thermal Engineer

Long Beach, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$176K/yr - $226K/yr

5+ years exp

Relativity Space is building rockets to meet today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Staff Thermal Engineer will drive the architecture and development of thermal systems, perform thermal analyses, and support vehicle thermal system development and testing.

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Responsibilities

Drive the architecture, sizing, and development of thermal systems like insulation, heaters, thermal protection, and environmental conditioning in collaboration with peer technical teams

Build, execute, and validate thermal analyses at the component, sub-system, and vehicle level, including relevant tool development and automation

Direct design and development engineers in the successful application of thermal sciences to achieve system and component requirements

Develop and execute tests to support thermal systems development and qualification, including hands-on work like test article integration, instrumentation setup, and data processing

Support vehicle and engine thermal system development and stage testing as well as flight operations

Qualification

Thermal analysisThermal systems designFEM/FDM/FVM solversTest plan developmentEngineering scripting (MATLAB/Python)Hands-on testing experienceProblem solvingCollaboration

Required

Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field

5+ years experience in thermal analysis

Proficiency in component and system level thermal and fluids analysis, using relevant toolsets like Sinda/Fluint/Thermal Desktop or other commercial FEM/FDM/FVM solvers

Experience in an analysis role on an integrated vehicle program

Hands-on experience with writing test plans and performing testing, instrumentation, and data analysis at the component and system level

Experience solving complex problems on integrated vehicles with design teams

Experience with an engineering scripting language like MATLAB or Python