Senior GNC Performance Engineer

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

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.

About The Role

• You will be responsible for:
• Carrying out analysis for engineering design trades and driving design decisions based on the results.
• Implementing, maintaining, and improving software tooling in a variety of languages, ranging from peripheral analysis utilities to core simulation capabilities.
• Maintaining, establishing, and sometimes leading collaborative relationships with key teams across Vehicle Engineering.
  

About You

• A graduate degree (MS/PhD) in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related field
• 8 of related experience working on projects that you utilize numerical techniques such as ODE's and optimization routines
• Have previously worked on projects that required you to utilize numerical techniques such as ODE's and optimization routines
• High proficiency in high-level programming languages (e.g. Python, Julia, MATLAB)
• Demonstrated strong critical thinking skills and ability to solve problems from first principles
  
  

Nice To Haves But Not Required

• Experience with launch vehicles and trajectory design
• Prior work in a startup or agile development environment
• Demonstrated experiences in taking complex analysis results and clearly communicating conclusions and recommendations to decision makers
• Experience working with advanced software development practices such as Docker, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and dependency management
  
  

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

$159,000—$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.