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Relativity Space · 4 months ago

Integrated Performance Engineer Intern

Long Beach, California

Internship

Onsite

Intern

$32/hr - $40/hr

Relativity Space is building rockets to meet today's launch capacity needs and drive future innovations. The Integrated Performance Engineer Intern will work with the Integrated Performance team to ensure the Terran R rocket meets its ambitious objectives through analysis, simulation, and hands-on engagement with hardware and operations.

3D TechnologyAerospaceArtificial Intelligence (AI)Manufacturing

Responsibilities

Launch vehicle trajectory design and optimization including launch availability and flight safety

Process test data and flight data to ensure analysis predictions properly represent vehicle behavior

Model stage separation including plume impingement to inform trajectory design of an entry vehicle

Develop models and perform analysis for multiple payload deployment collision avoidance

Develop dynamic loads and levels for launch vehicle hardware to design and test to

Work with hardware designers to successfully execute to criteria established by the above

Model coupled dynamics of engine actuators in a full vehicle dynamics simulation

Upfront design work on creating a wall of truth for vehicle design

Develop a script to automatically update a dashboard that displays abort values for testing and launch

Perform CFD analysis of vehicle entry configurations, develop aero databases

Analyze flight and engine hot fire data to characterize dynamic response behavior of Terran R

Design, manufacture, and test hardware to aid in mitigation of dynamic environments and/or execution of dynamics testing

Qualification

Mechanical EngineeringPythonFlight SciencesSimulationTrajectory DesignPassion for PhysicsTeam Collaboration

Required

Current undergraduate or graduate student earning your degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or a related field

Experience with an engineering coding language like Python

Experience contributing to complex projects as part of a technical team

Passion for launch and entry vehicle physics, simulation, and operations