Manager, Loads & Dynamics

About the Team: 

Relativity’s Integrated Performance teams ensure that our products work across all systems and disciplines, from trajectory design to aerodynamics to reliability analysis and beyond. Our groups size the Terran R rocket, design its missions for customer success, reliability, and reusability, and ensure that every system on the rocket and ground is engineered correctly for the demanding environments of launch and entry. Recently, we completed the preliminary design and analysis of Terran R including Relativity’s first-ever work on launch vehicle reusability, spanning advanced trajectory simulations, wind tunnel testing, and structures analysis, among many other projects.

The Loads & Dynamics team works collaboratively with adjacent Flight Sciences teams including Dynamic Environments and Aerodynamics and across the Structures, Mechanisms, Fluids, GNCP, Launch and Test teams to develop robust vehicle, ground system, and component architectures, generate associated loads, maintain and improve related analysis tools, provide design and test guidance, and contribute to performance trades on time and budget while meeting our technical requirements. A high degree of autonomy along with an ability to prioritize work in our fast-paced environment is required.

About the Role:

• Serve as company technical authority for Loads and Dynamics, with ownership of relevant requirements, decisions, risks, criteria and verification activities; customer and range certification; analysis methods, tool sets, and workflows
• Lead development, execution, delivery, and validation efforts for Coupled Loads Analysis (CLA) and other relevant Dynamic analyses, including tooling and automation
• Establish and execute roadmaps for engineering analysis, testing, and tool development in collaboration with engineering leadership
• 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
• Hire, train, and coach analysts to be hardware-focused, collaborative, and technically rigorous

About You:

• An undergraduate degree in engineering or related field and 7+ years relevant experience
• 2+ years experience leading technical teams, including hiring and performance management
• Experience in a dynamics role from concept through V&V/certification on a vehicle program
• Experience structuring, negotiating, executing, and delivering complex analysis projects to hardware teams and certification authorities
• Experience with testing, instrumentation, and data analysis

Nice to haves but not required:  

• A graduate degree (MS) in engineering or related field and 10+ years relevant experience
• Experience developing analysis toolsets/workflows using both custom and commercial software
• Experience leading anomaly resolutions/failure investigations
• Experience leading an engineering analysis team through a full program lifecycle