GNC Simulation Engineer I

Company Overview:  

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.

Team:  

We are seeking a highly talented GNC Engineer to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will provide outstanding technical contribution to the development of the Terran R vehicle guidance, navigation, and control. A high degree of autonomy and leadership is required.

What you’ll do: 

You will work closely with a multidisciplinary vehicle engineering team to develop control and guidance solutions, assess the impact of designs on vehicle controllability and performance, work with the flight software team to implement control algorithms and navigation solutions into Terran R, and make recommendations for changing vehicle configuration to meet controllability and performance goals. Additionally, you will support ground and flight tests for the Terran R launch vehicle.

What you need to know:  

You will be working on a wide range of projects developing end-end solutions with a high level of independence and ownership. The day-to-day work focus may include:

• Developing the software needed to set up a simulation environment
• Supporting multi-disciplinary vehicle and software design trades and develop software requirements
• Running analysis software that captures complex software and physics interaction
• Simulation sequencer/scheduler and logging tools
• Developing visualization tools
• Developing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) and automation
• Developing simulation interfaces with Hardware testing
• Physics model development

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Experience with compiled languages and creating high performance code
• Experience working with advanced software development practices such as Docker, Continuous Integration and Cloud deployment
• Experience working with numerical techniques such as ODE’s and optimization routines
• Experience in taking complex analysis results and clearly communicating conclusions and recommendations to management
• Excited about programming and learning new programming languages

Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous vacation policy, an annual L&D stipend and more! 

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.