Relativity Space

Senior Structural Analysis Engineer, Tools & Methods

Long Beach, California, United States

$138-178k

Full Time

2 hours ago

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Job description

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

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 technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

The Integrated Performance team owns the holistic view of how Terran R comes together, ensuring that every system on the vehicle and ground is capable of achieving our ambitious objectives. The team works across the full launch system, from trajectory design and aerodynamics to reliability analysis and beyond, with direct influence on all parts of the product lifecycle, from conceptual design to post-flight data review. Beyond analysis, team members engage hands-on with hardware and operations, with the mission and authority to drive meaningful programmatic change. With a unique organizational structure, the integrated performance team spans multiple technical domains and embeds directly with partner teams to solve the hardest multi-disciplinary problems. The team operates with a rare scale: large enough to support complex development, yet small enough that individual contributors have meaningful impact.

The Integrated Analysis group is responsible for accelerating Relativity's hardware engineering via advanced analysis and cutting-edge tools. The team works on a variety of complex structures analyses across all of our hardware teams, and develops tools and methods to unlock deeper insight in less time - to reduce weight, improve robustness, and deliver more flight-ready hardware to the launch pad.

About the Role:

Mature Relativity’s structures analysis processes, including custom and commercial tool selection and implementation, workflow automation, methodology development, and data and results processing, storage, and communication
Develop intuitive interfaces for hand calculations, linear/nonlinear FEA, and test data, gathering families of data across test and analysis cycles, comparing data against predictions, etc.
Work closely with dynamics and other disciplines to develop tools for load combination and interdisciplinary environments mapping
Integrate processing and analysis tools written by structures engineers into larger organizational software frameworks
Develop front-end interactive visuals for mapping data and analysis outputs through vehicle locations, flight timelines, etc.

About You:

Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field
5+ years experience in numerical analysis and tool development, preferably for FEA, CFD, or finite volume thermal analysis
2+ years of experience software development in a data handling/interdisciplinary environment
Experience solving complex problems on integrated vehicles
Experience structuring, negotiating, executing, and delivering complex tools and methods projects from start to finish
Proficiency in Python and version control systems (e.g., git)

Nice to Haves, but Not Required:

Graduate degree in engineering or related field
8+ years relevant experience
Experience managing and developing analysis toolsets and workflows across in-house and commercial software
Experience developing and managing robust data pipelines (storage backends, processing, front ends / GUIs)
Familiarity with classical aerospace sizing methods (Timoshenko, Bruhn, Roark, etc);
Expertise in multiple technical domains (e.g. structural and thermal)
Familiarity with fatigue and damage tolerance analysis

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:

$138,000—$178,000 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.