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.

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will collaborate with team members across the organization while contributing to the development of Relativity’s engineering processes and tools to enable the design, development, certification, and flight of the Terran R launch system.

Projects and responsibilities include the following:

• Develop the Systems Engineering tools and methodology roadmap, helping align the needs of various disciplines and the overall project from development to launch
• Build, continuously improve, or eliminate engineering processes to support an efficient, product-focused culture
• Prototype, implement, and rollout processes, tools, and automation that enable better design and test collaboration across the company
• Manage the vehicle design and development processes from beginning to end, ranging from working with department leaders on setting expectations, making progress visible, and ensuring the processes are effective
• Provide engineering expertise to solve technical problems at all levels.

As a Senior level Systems Engineer, you will work collaboratively within the Systems Engineering team to achieve the above responsibilities, while working autonomously on certain aspects of them.
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 experience in: Systems Engineering, Verification and Validation (V&V), and Requirement Management experience, Vehicle Configuration Management, Launch Vehicle certification as well as a proven track record completing projects successfully in a highly collaborative environment.
On a weekly basis, you will be developing processes and tools, supporting design teams, and working collaboratively with IT and DevOps. You will also use your strong organizational skills to properly manage the documentation and communication of your actions, recommendations, and decisions.