Design Criteria Engineer II

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our&nbsp;Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch&nbsp;capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new&nbsp;opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond&nbsp;the known.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now&nbsp;is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and&nbsp;the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most&nbsp;meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the Team: </span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}">&nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a Design Criteria Engineer, you will be responsible for identifying ways to improve emerging and existing designs and ensure that hardware and concepts of operation meet or exceed requirements. In short, you’ll be the glue between our analysis, test, certification, and design teams, helping to connect the technical dots and solve problems across our vehicle programs. To be successful in this role, you must be able to synthesize productivity for the program from the myriads of abstract problems and constraints facing an in-development launch vehicle. This will require an element of leadership and interfacing between teams.</span></div> <div class="p-rich_text_section">&nbsp;</div> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">About the Role:</strong></span></div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Engage with vehicle design and partner teams (Integrated Performance, Test, Launch, Materials, NDE, Manufacturing, Supply Chain) to drive optimized designs while shepherding them through the design review process, verification testing, and part release</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Collaborate with responsible engineers throughout the entire design process, ensuring design criteria are properly considered in the development of hardware</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Own and lead Design Criteria Reviews with design teams and responsible engineers</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Provide guidance and approval of qualification and acceptance test campaigns in preparation for flight</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Build, modify, or eliminate engineering tools, process, and standards to support an efficient, product-focused culture for Terran R</span></li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">About You:</strong></span></div> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">An undergraduate degree in engineering or related field and 2+ years relevant experience</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrated experience with verification and qualification of aerospace structures</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge of industry standards and their applicable requirements for structures, pressurize hardware, liquid rocket engines, etc. (NASA, Space Force, AIAA)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hands-on experience in the design, integration, test, and operation of space vehicles or large complex systems</span></li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Nice to haves, but not required:</strong></span></div> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">History of taking an aerospace product from concept to production</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience performing cross-functional engineering and integration for systems subject to complex requirements</span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience in mechanical engineering design and analysis</span></li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><span style="font-size: 14px;">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.</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">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!&nbsp;To see some of the benefits &amp; perks we offer, please visit <a href="https://px.sequoia.com/relativityspace">here.</a></span></p></div><div class="title">Hiring Range:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$139,000</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$177,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>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.</strong></span></p> <p><em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at <a href="mailto:accommodations@relativityspace.com">accommodations@relativityspace.com</a>.</strong></span></em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div>