Senior Structures Engineer
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Senior Structures Engineer responsible for designing, analyzing, and delivering flight-ready spacecraft structures for interplanetary missions at Relativity Space.
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the design, analysis, and development of spacecraft structures from concept through flight
- Perform structural and dynamic analysis (FEA, hand calcs, margins, etc.) to validate designs across all mission phases
- Produce engineering drawings with required specifications for manufacturing
- Collaborate with all subsystems to ensure structural integrity and system-level integration.
- Manage fabrication and assembly of structural components, including supplier coordination, material procurement, and flight hardware acceptance testing
- Design and execute environmental testing, load testing, and flight verification campaigns
Nice to haves but not required
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.
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 accommodations@relativityspace.com.
- Direct technical experience with interplanetary spacecraft design
- Experience designing avionics enclosures
- Familiarity with NASA or other spaceflight structural design and verification standards
- Experience with spaceflight hardware environmental testing and qualification
About the Team
The Interplanetary Sciences Program was established to expand access to scientific exploration across our solar system. Its mission is to make planetary research faster, more affordable, and more capable than ever before by rethinking how science missions are designed, built, and operated. The program aims to enable scientists to send instruments to distant worlds without decades of development or prohibitive costs. By creating a sustainable model for interplanetary exploration, we are transforming space science from an occasional event into a continuous process of discovery that accelerates knowledge, broadens participation, and inspires the next generation of explorers.
About the Role
As a Senior Structures Engineer within the Interplanetary Sciences Program at Relativity Space, you will own the design, development, analysis, build, and verification of primary and secondary spacecraft structures, from concept through flight. You will be directly responsible for delivering flight-ready hardware that meets mission performance, reliability, and cost objectives.
This position requires a highly motivated, hands-on engineer who thrives in ambiguity, can execute with autonomy, and is eager to take on end-to-end ownership, from early architecture and trade studies to prototype testing to final flight qualification.
About You
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field
- 5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and delivering aerospace primary or secondary structures
- Demonstrated ability to take structural systems from blank-sheet concept through qualification and flight
- Proficiency in CAD and structural analysis tools
- Hands-on experience with metallic structural design, GD&T, drawing creation, integration, and testing
- Strong communication skills and demonstrated success working cross-functionally in fast-paced environments
relativity
Chicago, IL
About relativity
Relativity provides e-discovery and litigation support software solutions.
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