Manager, Vehicle Structures Engineering

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 Structures and Mechanisms team is responsible for the full design, build, and test lifecycle of Terran R’s integrated structures and flight mechanisms. Whether you're working on highly iterative mechanisms that move or tight-margin structures that shouldn’t, you’ll get hands-on hardware ownership and see the rocket coming to life on the factory floor. Both teams fall under one department, sharing design principles, tools, and an integrated approach that provides a comprehensive view of Terran R. Team members work on multiple parts, not just within a single subsystem, and are empowered to make decisions that directly impact flight hardware. Beyond first flight, you’ll play a critical role in refining for manufacturability and speed.

About the Role:

Serve as technical authority for structures design in collaboration with Relativity’s engineering leadership

Hire, train, guide and mentor structures & design engineers to be efficient, hardware-focused, collaborative, and technically rigorous

Innovative conceptualization of structural load path, design of complex structures, definition of system packaging, guidance of test campaigns as well as support of manufacturing processes 

Review of static & dynamic load inputs, material properties, and additive process features development, along with establishing structural systems & subsystems requirements

About You:

• Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field 
• 3+ years of technical leadership, hiring and performance management experience 
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability and success in delivering complex products on time and budget with minimal guidance 
• Fundamental knowledge of structures design, analysis, manufacturing and testing

Nice to haves but not required: 

• 5+ years of technical leadership, hiring and performance management experience 
• Experience in a startup or fast pace development environment 
• Strong problem solver with great organization skills 
• Experience with NX, Teamcenter, Ansys and Femap

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:

$185,000—$204,000 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.