Manager, Vehicle Structures Engineering
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Job Description
About the Team:
The Structures team at Relativity is responsible for the design, analysis, testing, and manufacturing our launch vehicle integrated structures, as well as flight mechanisms. As a part of this team, you will be given hardware ownership for the full product lifecycle, and get the opportunity to conveniently validate your hardware through testing at our factory of the future, headquartered in Long Beach, CA. Unique to Relativity, you will get to work across many teams to develop world class integrated launch vehicles. Overall, this team was critical to the launch success of Terran 1 and is now playing a key role in the development and execution of the Terran R program.
About the Role:
Serve as technical authority for structures design in collaboration with Relativity's engineering leadership
Hire, train, guide and mentor structures & design engineers to be efficient, hardware-focused, collaborative, and technically rigorous
Innovative conceptualization of structural load path, design of complex structures, definition of system packaging, guidance of test campaigns as well as support of manufacturing processes
Review of static & dynamic load inputs, material properties, and additive process features development, along with establishing structural systems & subsystems requirements
About You:
- Undergraduate degree in engineering or related field
- 3+ years of technical leadership, hiring and performance management experience
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability and success in delivering complex products on time and budget with minimal guidance
- Fundamental knowledge of structures design, analysis, manufacturing and testing
Nice to haves but not required:
- 5+ years of technical leadership, hiring and performance management experience
- Experience in a startup or fast pace development environment
- Strong problem solver with great organization skills
- Experience with NX, Teamcenter, Ansys and Femap