Vehicle Fluid Systems Engineer II — Launch Impact & Growth

Relativity; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

PTO & sick leave

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking a Vehicle Fluid Systems Engineer to own the fluid subsystem architecture for a given vehicle. The role applies system architecture, operations, and thermodynamics to guide hardware design, analysis, manufacturing, validation and operations.

You will conduct fluid and thermal analyses, participate in design and manufacturing reviews, and support test objectives for validating system performance and integration with vehicle testing and launch.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant field.
• 2+ years of experience working with fluids systems.
• Strong understanding of thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
• Experience with fluid or thermal modeling tools for internal compressible and incompressible analysis.
• Proficiency in Python or similar for scientific computing and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own the vehicle fluid subsystem architecture and schematics, including system control scheme, system and component selection and sizing.
• Conducting fluid and thermal analyses, including system sizing and characterization using base analytical methods.
• Leading and participating in system and hardware design and manufacturing reviews.
• Defining and supporting test objectives and test campaigns to validate system design and performance.

Skills

Fluids systems

Thermodynamics

Fluid dynamics

Heat transfer

Modeling tools

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Fluid modeling tools

Job description

Relativity Space is seeking a Vehicle Fluid Systems Engineer to own the fluid subsystem architecture for a given vehicle. The role applies system architecture, operations, and thermodynamics to guide hardware design, analysis, manufacturing, validation and operations.

You will conduct fluid and thermal analyses, participate in design and manufacturing reviews, and support test objectives for validating system performance and integration with vehicle testing and launch.