Senior Dynamic Environments Engineer

Relativity Space; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking a Dynamics/Structures specialist to advance Terran R vibration and reliability goals. You will work across the launch vehicle program, collaborating with propulsion, avionics, and test teams to ensure robust data capture and analysis.

The role requires hands-on development of test criteria, fast instrumentation, and strong problem solving to drive issues to closure and contribute to the program's milestone-driven culture.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or related field.
• 5+ working experience with launch vehicles or rockets.
• Experience performing vibration/shock/acoustic analysis on a launch vehicle program.
• Experience developing dynamic test levels and criteria related to the above.
• High speed instrumentation and signal processing; demonstrated experience driving dynamics issues to closure across mechanical, fluids or other domains.

Responsibilities

• Perform vibration, shock, and acoustic analyses for Terran R, defining loads, levels, criteria, and product impact.
• Manage implementation and validation of dynamics instrumentation with Avionics for test and flight data capture.
• Support test planning and execution related to vibration, shock, and acoustics.
• Mature analysis processes, define hardware/test criteria, and communicate results to the program.
• Develop payload interface vibration/shock/acoustic levels and coordinate with Mission Management.

Skills

Vibration analysis

Launch vehicles

Dynamic testing

Signal processing

Instrumentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

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 Dynamics team works collaboratively with other Flight Sciences teams and across Stage Engineering, Fluids, Propulsion, Avionics, Test and Launch teams to develop analysis tools, test levels, vehicle and ground loads, and separation and deployment system architectures on time and budget while meeting our technical requirements. A high degree of autonomy along with an ability to prioritize work in our fast-paced environment is required

About the Role:

• Perform analysis of Terran R vibration, shock, and acoustic environments including definition of forcing functions, loads, levels, criteria, and product management
• Manage implementation and validation of Dynamics instrumentation and measurement systems in partnership with Avionics to ensure reliable test and flight data capture
• Proactively support test planning and execution related to vibration, shock, acoustics
• Contribute to maturation of analysis processes, related hardware/test criteria, and communication of results to program
• Develop payload interface vibration/shock/acoustic levels, interface with Mission Management and customers as needed to determine spec compliance and paths to improvement
• Collaborate with REs to identify opportunities to improve reliability, robustness, or simplicity of affected hardware
• Mentor more junior analysts to be hardware-focused, collaborative, technically rigorous, and practical in their approach

About You:

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering or related field
• 5+ working experience with launch vehicles or rockets
• Experience performing vibration/shock/acoustic analysis on a launch vehicle program
• Experience developing dynamic test levels and criteria related to the above
• High speed instrumentation and signal processing Demonstrated experience driving dynamics issues to closure across mechanical, fluids or other domains

Nice to Haves, but Not Required:

• Experience developing analysis toolsets/workflows using both custom and commercial software
• Experience leading anomaly resolutions/failure investigations
• Experience in an engineering analysis team through a full program lifecycle

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:

$132,000 — $198,000 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.

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