Launch Fluids and Operations Engineer Intern (Cape Canaveral, FL)

Relativity Space; Florida; Presencial; USD 25.000 - 39.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Relativity Space in Cape Canaveral, FL, invites talented students to join our Launch Intern program. You will work closely with engineers across fluids, structures, and avionics to support the Terran R program’s ground systems, testing, and integration efforts.

As an intern, you’ll contribute to design and build activities, develop procedural documentation, and assist in automation and GUI development for launch operations.

Formación

• Enrolled as undergraduate or graduate student in mechanical or aerospace engineering.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Basic knowledge of fluid and structural components and instrumentation.
• Ownership of projects with minimal oversight.

Responsabilidades

• Assist development and operation of Launch Site GSE and fluid systems.
• Support launch site preparation, testing, and integration activities.
• Develop and refine procedures, build flows, and test instructions with guidance from engineers.
• Contribute to GUI and automation development for launch operations.

Conocimientos

Fluid systems

Structural components

Instrumentation

Project ownership

Educación

Undergraduate or graduate student in mechanical or aerospace engineering

Herramientas

Automation scripting

GUI tooling

Descripción del empleo

"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 Launch team operates at the intersection of every major aspect of Terran R, from stages and payloads to ground systems, launch, landing, and refurbishment. The Cape is the only place where you see it all come together, offering a level of exposure and responsibility unmatched elsewhere in the program. This is where first flights happen, where history is built on top of history, and where the scale of what's underway is unlike anything in modern aerospace. The mission stays the same, but the work evolves with every milestone: from first launch to reuse, high‑cadence operations, and beyond. If you're looking to define what's next in space launch and write a new playbook, not just repeat what’s already been done, this is where it happens.

Launch Engineer Interns will be on one of the following teams:

• Launch Fluids - Design launch pad propellant and gas infrastructure, including fluid system design, modeling, pipe stress analysis, fabrication drawings, process and instrumentation diagrams, component lists, and detailed work instructions
• Launch Operations - Create and optimize automated test sequences, procedures, and data review processes. Command and monitor the launch pad and flight hardware through GUIs and integrated control, automation, and telemetry systems.
• Launch Integration - Support vehicle processing and checkouts at the launch site from receiving through launch operations. Develop and update build flows, work instructions, and test procedures with guidance from experienced engineers to support consistent, high-quality execution.
• Vehicle Transport & Recovery - Design and build hardware, develop operational procedures, and support build and integration of systems for Terran R stage transportation and the Terran R Recovery Barge.

About The Role

As a Launch Intern, you will help out and take on an active role in the development, build-up, activation, and operation of launch site GSE, including fluid systems (liquid oxygen, liquid natural gas, gaseous helium, liquid and gaseous nitrogen, hydraulics, water, and environmental control systems), supporting infrastructure, mating hardware and mechanisms, procedure development, system maintenance, operational concept of operations, GUI and automation development, and support launch/integration preparations and operations.

About You

• Current undergraduate or graduate student earning degree inmechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related field.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced and intense startup environment.
• Basic knowledge of common fluid & structural components and instrumentation, such as valves, regulators, hydraulic actuators, pressure transducers, thermocouples, flow meters, accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells.
• Ownership of projects from beginning to end, with minimal oversight.

Past Intern Projects (Just a few examples!)

• Designed, built, and tested Aeon R engine ground spin start system
• Developed automation for precise control of ground system valve actuation
• Oversaw design and build of load test boxes for Avionics hardware in the loop testing
• Coordinated/developed interdisciplinary rocket and ground system architecture for Terran R
• Tested flight quick disconnects
• Implemented computer vision on the robots to implemented live depth data
• Worked on test stand infrastructure to help run tests more often and more efficiently
• Designed and 3D printed tools for rocket integration

Cape Canaveral internships will require your own transportation.

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.