Senior Structural Analysis Engineer, Tools & Methods

About the Team:

The Integrated Performance team owns the holistic view of how Terran R comes together, ensuring that every system on the vehicle and ground is capable of achieving our ambitious objectives. The team works across the full launch system, from trajectory design and aerodynamics to reliability analysis and beyond, with direct influence on all parts of the product lifecycle, from conceptual design to post-flight data review. Beyond analysis, team members engage hands-on with hardware and operations, with the mission and authority to drive meaningful programmatic change. With a unique organizational structure, the integrated performance team spans multiple technical domains and embeds directly with partner teams to solve the hardest multi-disciplinary problems. The team operates with a rare scale: large enough to support complex development, yet small enough that individual contributors have meaningful impact.

The Integrated Analysis group is responsible for accelerating Relativity's hardware engineering via advanced analysis and cutting-edge tools. The team works on a variety of complex structures analyses across all of our hardware teams, and develops tools and methods to unlock deeper insight in less time - to reduce weight, improve robustness, and deliver more flight-ready hardware to the launch pad.

About the Role:

• Mature Relativity's structures analysis processes, including custom and commercial tool selection and implementation, workflow automation, methodology development, and data and results processing, storage, and communication
• Develop intuitive interfaces for hand calculations, linear/nonlinear FEA, and test data, gathering families of data across test and analysis cycles, comparing data against predictions, etc.
• Work closely with dynamics and other disciplines to develop tools for load combination and interdisciplinary environments mapping
• Integrate processing and analysis tools written by structures engineers into larger organizational software frameworks
• Develop front-end interactive visuals for mapping data and analysis outputs through vehicle locations, flight timelines, etc.

About You:

• Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field
• 5+ years experience in numerical analysis and tool development, preferably for FEA, CFD, or finite volume thermal analysis
• 2+ years of experience software development in a data handling/interdisciplinary environment
• Experience solving complex problems on integrated vehicles
• Experience structuring, negotiating, executing, and delivering complex tools and methods projects from start to finish
• Proficiency in Python and version control systems (e.g., git)

Nice to Haves, but Not Required:

• Graduate degree in engineering or related field
• 8+ years relevant experience
• Experience managing and developing analysis toolsets and workflows across in-house and commercial software
• Experience developing and managing robust data pipelines (storage backends, processing, front ends / GUIs)
• Familiarity with classical aerospace sizing methods (Timoshenko, Bruhn, Roark, etc);
• Expertise in multiple technical domains (e.g. structural and thermal)
• Familiarity with fatigue and damage tolerance analysis