Manager, Vehicle Structures Engineering

At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.

Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.

About the Team: 

The Structures team at Relativity is responsible for the design, analysis, testing, and manufacturing our launch vehicle integrated structures, as well as flight mechanisms. As a part of this team, you will be given hardware ownership for the full product lifecycle, and get the opportunity to conveniently validate your hardware through testing at our factory of the future, headquartered in Long Beach, CA. Unique to Relativity, you will get to work across many teams to develop world class integrated launch vehicles. Overall, this team was critical to the launch success of Terran 1 and is now playing a key role in the development and execution of the Terran R program.

About the Role:

• Serve as technical authority for structures design in collaboration with Relativity’s engineering leadership
• Hire, train, guide and mentor structures & design engineers to be efficient, hardware-focused, collaborative, and technically rigorous
• Innovative conceptualization of structural load path, design of complex structures, definition of system packaging, guidance of test campaigns as well as support of manufacturing processes 
• Review of static & dynamic load inputs, material properties, and additive process features development, along with establishing structural systems & subsystems requirements

About You:

• Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field 
• 3+ years of technical leadership, hiring and performance management experience 
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability and success in delivering complex products on time and budget with minimal guidance 
• Fundamental knowledge of structures design, analysis, manufacturing and testing

Nice to haves but not required:  

• 5+ years of technical leadership, hiring and performance management experience 
• Experience in a startup or fast pace development environment 
• Strong problem solver with great organization skills 
• Experience with NX, Teamcenter, Ansys and Femap

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.

Hiring Range:$185,000—$204,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.