Relativity Space

Coordinate with Engineering and Operations leads to develop and implement a business-oriented contracting strategy. Lead negotiations and contracting relating to strategic partnerships. Negotiate, draft and review a steady flow of agreements that include: commercial contracts and technology transactions, including terms and conditions, master service agreements, statements of work, and NDAs; marketing and branding-related agreements; service provider agreements for Operations teams;  real property leases;  employment documents that are related to intellectual property and confidentiality; and customer/sales contracts.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be equally at home working from your desk or in the test yard. Some days you will be working on the test stands to diagnose and solve electrical problems, while other days you will be designing new systems for upcoming test campaigns. You should be nimble and scrappy, but able with a constant eye to safety and quality. The test team frequently shifts priorities and redistributes work amongst our teammates. You should be flexible and able to work in a very dynamic environment. You should be able to work independently, but willing to jump in wherever help is needed. The ideal candidate will specialize in electrons, but have a basic understanding of mechanical systems. The most successful candidates have a hunger to continually learn new skills and are not afraid to give and receive constructive feedback.

Execute daily operations to produce development, qualification, and flight hardware facilitating structures and company goals. Work closely with manufacturing and design engineering to improve processes and product designs. Assist with set up and operation of our large 3D printers. Learn periodic maintenance of robotics and weld equipment. Support production process under the direction of engineers and managers. Establish and enforce preventative maintenance procedures for company assets.

You will develop and optimize our deposition process to be sufficient for flight quality parts by monitoring print cells during operation, and provide feedback on design changes. Additionally you will create trainings, procedures, and safety guidelines for print cell operators. You will assist our software and automation teams by guiding sensor selection, data collection, and control loops within our printers.

Most of your time will be spent operating as an independent contributor searching for publicly available data and using it to create market intelligence to support sales and proposal efforts. You will also spend time developing pricing for unique engineering services requested by our customers. At the end of the day, you are a highly analytical and independent person with high analytical aptitude—relentless in finding the right solutions. The work we have will require your capability to strategize while communicating to a wide audience (oral and written forms).

To support our mission to re-imagine the way rockets are built and flown, as a Technical Recruiter, you will partner closely with our hiring managers and manage the entire recruiting process. You will get to know your team and their fascinating projects—helping key teams by sourcing, interviewing, negotiating offers, and on-boarding the right people. Your main objective is to find and hire the amazing talent that meets Relativity’s high bar for qualifications and mindset. In addition to recruiting, you will assist with interview training, recruiting process optimization, and the implementation of new tools—all while providing an exceptional candidate experience, consistent with our company values. Participation in networking events, career fairs, and some travel to our test and launch sites may be required.

On a day to day, you will be managing the development of proposals by 1) developing and tracking the schedule that identifies the required resources to support the proposal development 2) developing initial drafts based on prior work to ensure we’re leveraging as much prior work as possible 3) ensuring we are consistent in tone and style. You should have a demonstrated ability to work autonomously while dealing with tight schedules and significant ambiguity. You are also a great communicator, team player, and/or have high mechanical aptitude (you will be translating dense engineering text into clear and concise writing.) At the end of the day, you are a strong team player who has the ability to motivate peers to provide support and stay on schedule as needed.

The ideal candidate for this role is a self-starter and a natural leader, with 5+ years of experience in an aerospace production environment. Demonstrated pride in workmanship and safety is required, and experience with propulsion test and assembly equipment is a major plus. Ability to swiftly manage time and prioritize tasks with a team goal in mind is essential.

Ideally you are a candidate who has experience developing internally facing web applications working in an engineering focused company. You should be experienced in database design and management as well as in domain modeling and ontology development that inform the data models. You should have an eye for simple and impactful UX design. You should have basic understanding of physical/mechanical systems. You should be driven, scrappy, and always seeking ways to optimize a system. You should also have experience working in small, fast paced teams.

The Office Manager role falls under Relativity’s Real Estate and Workplace team—they make sure that every Relativity employee has the facilities and workplace services needed to do their best work every day. This team monitors the organization’s needs, always shows highest responsiveness, applies problem solving, and consistently follows through on initiatives, to make both employees’ and visitors’ experience at Relativity’s headquarters great. The Office Manager is a key piece to a successful Real Estate and Workplace puzzle. The Office Manager will be on the ground, responsible for the maintenance and continuous improvement of our facilities, convenient workplace services, and the coordination of all outside services (technical, janitorial, hospitality) at our facility. Additionally, the Office Manager will coordinate company gatherings and events that create positive impact for the company and great memories for all team members. 

We’re looking for a talented and creative Digital Media Producer to join our rapidly growing launch services company. You will be part of Relativity’s growing Creative & Marketing team, which creates and delivers marketing, communications, design and brand strategy and vision. This role will support with enhancing and maintaining the Relativity brand through the creation of visually stunning photos and videos for use on social media, websites, and marketing materials. This role will be responsible for the day-to-day photography and videography needs, producing cutting edge content highlighting our technical updates and milestones, and executing on both pre-production and post-production.

Relativity seeks a highly talented Lead Integration and Test Technician to join a rapidly growing space startup. The Integration and Test team is responsible for the final assembly, integration and checkouts of the Terran 1 launch vehicle stages spanning across propulsion, structures and avionics. As the lead technician in the area you will work closely with the engineering team and will be responsible for spearheading all work on the production floor including delegation and mentoring of other technicians.

Relativity seeks a highly talented Propulsion Design Engineer to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will provide outstanding technical contribution in the development of the Aeon-1 propulsion system through design and manufacturing ownership of the engine assembly and integrating components. A high degree of autonomy and initiative is required.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be equally at home working from your desk or in the test yard. Some days you will be working on the test stands to solve integration or activation problems, and other days you will be designing new systems for upcoming test campaigns. You should be nimble and scrappy, but able with a constant eye to safety and quality. The test team frequently shifts priorities and redistributes work amongst our teammates. You should be flexible and able to work in a very dynamic environment. You should be able to work independently, but willing to jump in wherever help is needed. As a senior engineer, we are counting on your experience to help mentor the rest of the team. The most successful candidates have a hunger to continually learn new skills and are not afraid to give and receive constructive feedback.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to drive their own projects to completion. You must have the passion, tenacity and resolve to work through challenging issues unique to rocket turbopumps. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary groups.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to drive their own projects to completion. You must have the passion, tenacity and resolve to work through challenging issues unique to rocket turbopumps. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary groups.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to lead their own projects into completion. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with other key groups.

Relativity seeks a highly talented Senior Propulsion Engineer to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will provide outstanding technical leadership in the development of the Aeon 1 propulsion system injector, thrust chamber assembly, and ignition system for the Terran 1 vehicle, as well as helping build a world-class propulsion team. A high degree of autonomy and leadership is required.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be a technical leader with experience developing and fielding a complex system involving fluid systems, structures and mechanisms, and avionics and software. Strong project management skills are crucial--you should know how to adapt as plans change or the project hits setbacks to minimize schedule impacts and keep the team bought into the plan.  Ideally, you are a person who understands complicated problems and can communicate them to multidisciplinary teams clearly and concisely. Given that we are depending on your technical abilities including judgment, you should have experience in launch vehicles or a very similar field. Hands on integration experience is important to help the team design for easy integration and troubleshoot issues as they arise.

To be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to lead their own projects into completion with the highest attention to detail--all while being able to abstract from day to day challenges. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with other key groups. Pressure around timelines, cost, and quality unleash the best in you, and you find creative ways to optimize across trade-offs. On a day-to-day, you will be working within our CAD program, Creo, as well as performing FEA and hand calculations.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to drive their own projects to completion. You must have the passion, tenacity and resolve to work through challenging issues unique to rocket propulsion systems. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with multidisciplinary groups.

Relativity seeks a highly talented Lead/Senior Avionics Software Engineer to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will directly work on flight software intended to fly on the Terran 1 launch vehicle. The main responsibility will be to architect and program flight software running on the vehicle which implements guidance, fault-mitigation, and communications services to the vehicle. Additionally, the person filling this role will be responsible for recruiting and hiring additional flight software engineers.

Relativity seeks a Mechanical Engineer to join the Additive Manufacturing team. This position will provide outstanding technical leadership in the development of our Additive Manufacturing capabilities by assisting in the selection, build out, and maintenance our automation facilities.

To support our mission of changing people’s conception of the way rockets are built and flown, you will be designing critical flight parts, ground support equipment, test fixtures, and tooling. This encompasses a wide variety of designs (full cycle—from conceptualization, design, prototyping, manufacturing, testing, design, and implementation.)

Relativity is looking for a talented Machine Learning Engineer to join the multifaceted Additive Manufacturing team comprised of software, automation and computer vision engineers who work closely with welding engineers. This position will play a crucial role in expanding the intelligent systems that help us autonomously 3D print rockets! This will be the foundational work for our future off-planet printer controls.

To be successful in this role, you should hold a relevant engineering degree and have 2+ years of related experience, ideally in an aerospace manufacturing environment. Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally to resolve manufacturing issues and meeting production demand is a must. The ideal candidate has a strong mindset toward quality, root cause analysis, and implementation of reliable and productive processes. You’re a tinkerer but also a self-starter who can balance and prioritize daily tasks that contribute to short and long term company goals.

To be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to lead their own projects into completion. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with other key groups. Pressure around timelines, cost, and quality unleash the best in you, and you find creative ways to optimize across trade-offs. You are comfortable interacting with highly technical teams to identify fundamental site requirements and compile solutions that work for a variety of teams. You have the highest attention to detail, while being able to abstract form day-to-day challenges and ensure alignment on high-level objectives. 

To be successful in this role, you should be someone who thrives in ambiguity and is able to lead their own projects into completion. Ideally, you are someone who has come from a fast paced, aerospace environment, having completed difficult projects while collaborating effectively with other key groups. Pressure around timelines, cost, and quality unleash the best in you, and you find creative ways to optimize across trade-offs. You are comfortable interacting with highly technical teams to identify fundamental site requirements and compile solutions that work for a variety of teams and have the highest attention to detail, while being able to abstract form day-to-day challenges and ensure alignment on high-level objectives. 

Relativity seeks a highly talented Head of Production to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will provide outstanding technical leadership in the development of the automation and production process for Relativity’s launch vehicles, as well as helping build a world-class automation team. A high degree of autonomy and leadership is required.

Manager to join our growing team at our headquarters in Los Angeles. As IT Manager at Relativity, you will be responsible for all areas involving IT operations and support. Your approach will bring together the best of leading a small team of DevOps and IT technician resources, and being hands-on in solving technical problems for all Relativity employees. You are passionate about technology and people, and bring a thought leader mindset to all automation, infrastructure, and support challenges. You are able to investigate and resolve technical problems yourself, while setting priorities and providing guidance to a team that supports a rapidly growing, multi-site organization. You will manage and grow the IT operations team at Relativity, and report to the VP of Operations.

Relativity seeks a highly talented Head of GNC to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will provide outstanding technical leadership to the development of the Terran 1 vehicle guidance, navigation and control. A high degree of autonomy and leadership is required.

 You should be a technical leader with experience developing and fielding a complex system involving mechanical hardware, fluid systems, and extreme thermal/structural environments. You should have experience in propulsion system testing, including facility requirements, data analysis, and product validation. You should also be a strong project manager who knows how to adapt as plans change or the project hits setbacks to minimize schedule impacts and keep the team bought into the plan. You will have to deeply understand complicated problems and communicate them to multidisciplinary teams, so clear thinking and strong communication skills are important. Given that we are depending on your technical abilities including judgment, you should have experience in liquid pump fed rocket propulsion systems or a very similar field. Hands on integration experience is important to help the team design for easy integration and troubleshoot issues as they arise.

Relativity seeks a highly talented GN&C Engineer to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will provide outstanding technical contribution in the development of the Terran 1 vehicle guidance, navigation and control. A high degree of autonomy and leadership is required.

We are looking for an experienced Director of Marketing and Brand to oversee all marketing, communications, creative, and brand operations of the company and develop its strategy and vision. In this role you will own the development, team execution, and team leadership for corporate messaging, public relations, social media campaigns, story-telling, brand positioning, launch webcasting, and announcement events. As the team leader of these functions, you will provide communications services supporting Relativity core business units and functions. As a hands-on team manager, you will develop and promote our compelling story to multiple audiences in a variety of digital and physical mediums. 

Relativity seeks a highly talented Data & Control Systems Engineer to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will help build the core of our propulsion capability via the development and operation of a world-class test facility for components, engines, and complete rocket vehicle stages. A high degree of autonomy is required.

Your role in our mission will be aggregating investor intelligence and providing actionable strategy to who we should partner with towards achieving our goals. You are the right blend of a highly engaging communicator and listener, and a consummate data hound. You understand how relationships internally and externally are developed, and are a valuable partner to our company's leadership. 

You have ideally built high performance software using computer vision and machine learning that can run in real time to control robotic systems using data from various sensors. You are excited to learn about the additive manufacturing process and are willing to collaborate with other software and automation engineers in our team. You will need creativity to automate existing manual interventions that are currently required during the printing process. 

The Accounting team manages all financial transactions in accordance with GAAP to ensure the integrity of financial statements in order for proper strategic business decisions to be made. To support the growth of the company, the accountant will be an essential addition to the accounting team in helping with payables/accounting transactions processing and maintaining necessary controls. This role reports to the Financial Controller.

To be successful in this role, you need to have a commitment to quality and the discipline required to achieve it. You will set the tone for how procedures and work orders are written, how problems on the floor are addressed, and how test operations are run on the vehicle. You will be a trail blazer for the company, so you need to be very self-motivated and be able to influence and get buy in from engineers and technicians to implement your plans. You will need to be comfortable with desk work such as writing work instructions and analyzing test data as well as hands on work setting up work cells, assembling hardware and running test operations. You should be comfortable operating and troubleshooting complicated systems comprised of mechanical hardware, electronic hardware and software.

We are looking for a Director of Real Estate and Workplace to join our growing team at our headquarters in Los Angeles. You will be responsible for all Relativity sites, including our company headquarters, our manufacturing sites, and our test and launch facilities. Our facilities combine the experience of vibrant startup offices with state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities, and we consider them a key to our success in evolving our manufacturing technology, building an incredible team, and delivering industry-leading launch services to our customers. You will report to the VP of Operations. 

As a Senior Industrial Engineer, you connect various technical and operations teams to define optimized production processes. You translate these processes into space and machine programs and floor layouts that enable amazing results, and are scalable as we go through rapid growth in technology and throughput. You will design the layout and programming for our next headquarters and manufacturing site, and be a key partner to the production, engineering, and operations organizations to anticipate needs and challenges, create effective plans to set up an operational production site quickly and under controlled cost, and will be engaged in continuous improvements of our facilities to optimize outcomes.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be equally at home working from your desk or in the test yard. Some days you will be working on the test stands to solve integration or activation problems, and other days you will be designing new systems for upcoming test campaigns. You should be nimble and scrappy, but able with a constant eye to safety and quality. The test team frequently shifts priorities and redistributes work among our teammates. You should be flexible and able to work in a very dynamic environment. You should be able to work independently, but willing to jump in wherever help is needed. The most successful candidates have a hunger to continually learn new skills and are not afraid to give and receive constructive feedback.

In order to be successful in this role, you should be a master of diverse skills. Your day to day responsibilities could include: metal fabrication, electrical installation and troubleshooting, hydraulics diagnostics, fluid system fabrication, lifting and rigging, welding, machine operation, and more. Relativity is a small and nimble company, so you will be exposed to new challenges on a regular basis. The most successful candidates thrive in taking general directions and filling in the details. You should be able to build from napkin sketches or detailed drawings while providing constructive feedback to the engineering team. This person will be the main interface between the technician and engineering teams. It is essential that they communicate clearly and frequently. As the team grows, they will mentor the other technicians based on their past experiences. This position requires a strong ability to lead by example.

Relativity is searching for a Director of Additive to lead a team comprised of software, automation, materials, mechanical, and weld process engineers. This position will play a crucial role in expanding our fleet of autonomous printers for 3D printing rockets by owning the programs that will further this technology. Your work will be foundational for our future off-planet printers. This is a key role to help us build the future of humanity in space; as our technology and 3D printers are one of our most important assets!

Relativity seeks a highly talented software leadership to join a rapidly growing space startup. This position will lead the effort to develop both the software to fly the rocket and the software that interfaces to the rocket to support test and launch operations for the Terran 1 launch vehicle. The main responsibility will be to build the team and processes needed to architect and develop the software to operate and fly the vehicle.