Vehicle Fluids Product Lead - Flight-Ready

Front Door Defense; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

PTO & sick leave

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Manager, Vehicle Fluids Product to lead the fluids system architecture and ensure flight-ready integration of the Terran R vehicle. You will guide a cross-functional team across propulsion, structures, GNC, and avionics, own testing scopes, mentor engineers, and drive risk reduction through analysis and hands-on collaboration.

This role offers ownership, fast pace, and the chance to influence major engine and vehicle hardware while growing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or related field required.
• +7 years of relevant experience across at least 1 aerospace vehicle program lifecycle.
• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering hardware on complex projects.
• Strong background in fluid system architecture, operations and application of fundamentals in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer.
• Proficient with fluid/thermal modeling tools for internal analyses.
• Experience with Matlab, Python, or C++ for data analysis or modeling.
• Direct experience designing or operating launch vehicle or spacecraft fluid/propulsion systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage a high-performing fluids product team while aligning and executing against program milestones.
• Define, scope and schedule the stage-level fluid architecture, requirements and documentation for integrated testing and flight readiness.
• Lead cross-functional interface definitions and negotiations with partner vehicle teams to ensure flawless system integration.
• Set clear team goals and drive accountability.
• Assist with sizing and 1D steady-state thermofluids analysis at system and component levels as needed.
• Define development, qualification, and acceptance testing scopes to reduce technical risk prior to vehicle-level testing.
• Participate in CONOPS development and operation data reviews for ownership of the fluid systems' operational philosophy and testing at vehicle level.
• Mentor engineers and guide hardware owners to ensure systems meet fluid requirements.

Skills

Fluid system architecture

Thermodynamics

System design

Engineering fundamentals

Matlab

Python

C++

Fluid dynamics

Heat transfer

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Tools

Matlab

Python

C++

Job description

Relativity Space in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Manager, Vehicle Fluids Product to lead the fluids system architecture and ensure flight-ready integration of the Terran R vehicle. You will guide a cross-functional team across propulsion, structures, GNC, and avionics, own testing scopes, mentor engineers, and drive risk reduction through analysis and hands-on collaboration.

This role offers ownership, fast pace, and the chance to influence major engine and vehicle hardware while growing