Senior Systems Engineer

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. We’re creating opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation beyond the known. About The Team The Systems Engineering team ensures that Terran R comes together as a cohesive, high‑performing, and scalable system. One team builds tools and processes to manage requirements, track decisions, and mitigate risk, enabling faster, more informed development across the program. The other team focuses on the vehicle itself, working across teams to ensure all subsystems function together, burning down technical risk, and driving informed decisions at every stage of the vehicle lifecycle. Engineers are empowered to lead high‑impact efforts—from major test campaigns to console operations during launch—and to drive improvements across fluids, structures, avionics, and more. About The Role As a Senior Systems Process Engineer you will be leading the creation, development, streamlining, and/or elimination of Systems Engineering processes across the company to support an efficient, product‑focused culture. Daily Activities: Finding pain points with existing processes and proposing solutions. Proactively working with the Software & IT department to brainstorm solutions and to help set priorities. Prototype, implement, and rollout processes, tools, and automation that enable better design and test collaboration across the company. About You BS in Engineering or related field. 5+ years of systems engineering experience. Successful development and roll‑out of department or company‑wide processes. Proven ability to work with internal IT and Dev Ops teams to create tools. At least 1 full life‑cycle experience, from concept to completion, for either process development or tool development. Nice To Haves But Not Required Graduate degree (MS) in engineering or related field. Hands‑on experience in the design, integration, test, and operation of complex systems. Scripting experience. Experience with Model‑Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). 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: $148,500—$181,500 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. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at View email address on click.appcast.io. #J-18808-Ljbffr