About the position
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. The Integrated Analysis group is responsible for accelerating Relativity's hardware engineering via advanced analysis and cutting-edge tools. The team works on a variety of complex structures analyses across all of our hardware teams, and develops tools and methods to unlock deeper insight in less time - to reduce weight, improve robustness, and deliver more flight-ready hardware to the launch pad.
Responsibilities
- Mature Relativity's structures analysis processes, including custom and commercial tool selection and implementation, workflow automation, methodology development, and data and results processing, storage, and communication
- Develop intuitive interfaces for hand calculations, linear/nonlinear FEA, and test data, gathering families of data across test and analysis cycles, comparing data against predictions, etc.
- Work closely with dynamics and other disciplines to develop tools for load combination and interdisciplinary environments mapping
- Integrate processing and analysis tools written by structures engineers into larger organizational software frameworks
- Develop front-end interactive visuals for mapping data and analysis outputs through vehicle locations, flight timelines, etc.
Requirements
- Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field
- 5+ years experience in numerical analysis and tool development, preferably for FEA, CFD, or finite volume thermal analysis
- 2+ years of experience software development in a data handling/interdisciplinary environment
- Experience solving complex problems on integrated vehicles
- Experience structuring, negotiating, executing, and delivering complex tools and methods projects from start to finish
- Proficiency in Python and version control systems (e.g., git)
Nice-to-haves
- Graduate degree in engineering or related field
- 8+ years relevant experience
- Experience managing and developing analysis toolsets and workflows across in-house and commercial software
- Experience developing and managing robust data pipelines (storage backends, processing, front ends / GUIs)
- Familiarity with classical aerospace sizing methods (Timoshenko, Bruhn, Roark, etc)
- Expertise in multiple technical domains (e.g. structural and thermal)
- Familiarity with fatigue and damage tolerance analysis
