Relativity Space · 17 hours ago
Staff Loads & Dynamics Engineer
Long Beach, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$176K/yr - $226K/yr
7+ years expRelativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. The Staff Loads & Dynamics Engineer will drive maturation of hardware designs and lead development of dynamic analyses while collaborating across multiple teams to ensure vehicle performance meets ambitious objectives.
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Responsibilities
Drive maturation of hardware designs and ops decisions through analysis, understanding of vehicle and program needs, and proactive communication across teams
Lead development, execution, delivery, and validation efforts for relevant Dynamic analyses such as Coupled Loads Analysis or Vibroacoustic Analysis, including tooling and automation
Develop Dynamic loads, levels, and criteria from initial concept through data review for vehicle and supporting hardware for Terran R
Contribute to and execute roadmaps for engineering analysis, testing, and tool development in collaboration with management
Drive the design of Terran R system elements and operations to meet Loads and Dynamics criteria and to identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, robustness, or simplicity
Mentor other analysts to be hardware-focused, collaborative, and judicious with technical rigor
Qualification
Required
Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field and 7+ years relevant experience
Experience structuring, negotiating, executing, and delivering complex analysis projects to hardware teams and certification authorities
Experience with Finite Element and/or other modeling approaches for dynamic response analysis
Experience developing Dynamics analysis tools/workflows
Experience with relevant testing, instrumentation, and data analysis
Preferred
Experience leading technical teams, including hiring and performance management
Experience leading anomaly resolutions/failure investigations
Experience in a Dynamics role from concept through V&V/certification on a vehicle program
Working knowledge of liquid rocket engines, fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, structural mechanics
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
A generous PTO and sick leave policy
Parental leave
An annual learning and development stipend
Company
Relativity Space
Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.36BKey Investors
FidelityTiger Global ManagementPlayground Global
2023-11-15Series F· $20M
2022-02-03Secondary Market
2021-06-08Series E· $650M
Leadership Team
Eric Schmidt
Chair and CEO
David Giger
VP of Engineering
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