Aerothermal Engineer II
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<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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 </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the Team: </span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong><span data-contrast="none">About the Role:</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":true,"134233118":true,"201341983":0,"335559740":240}"> </span></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="none">Develop and execute computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses to solve novel challenges in vehicle entry heating and supersonic retropropulsion</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":0}"> </span></span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="none">Drive the design of major Terran R system elements – like fins, flaps, heat shields, and primary structure – to meet criteria for temperature and heating</span> </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Guide and mentor responsible hardware engineers to ensure hardware meets aerothermal requirements </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Scope and develop aerothermal databases for ascent and entry, including uncertainty quantification, from multiple sources like CFD, empirical methods, and wind tunnel testing </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Size thermal protection systems (TPS) for flight </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Support re-usable TPS material development and testing </span></li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" data-leveltext="-" data-font="Calibri" data-listid="23" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Calibri","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"-","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Mature Relativity’s tools for developing and communicating aerothermal data, including custom and commercial code, databases, and data processing tools<span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":0}"> </span></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span data-contrast="none">To be successful in this role, you should be self-motivated, adaptable, and able to contribute significantly to a fast-paced, integrated vehicle program. You should also be able to resolve ambiguity and drive projects to completion. Ideally, you have significant compressible flow, CFD, thermal analysis, and conjugate heat transfer experience as well as a proven track record completing projects successfully in a highly collaborative environment.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559739":0}"> </span></span
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