Vehicle Structures Design Engineer II
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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:
- The scope of work encompasses designing parts and systems from early conceptualization through full release and supporting manufacturing for primary and secondary structures related to all stages of the Terran R rocket. You will need to think creatively and leverage innovation to optimize part geometry, ensure assembly packaging, prevent interferences and excessive gapping, reduce mass, and make parts fully manufacturable. You'll also assist manage parts and assemblies throughout their lifecycles in PLM, and you'll control BOM structuring and configuration management for many systems across the vehicle. Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to the following:
- Design and develop piece parts, assemblies, and systems from early conceptualization up through full initial release - working with large machined metallic components, sheet metal, composites, formed panels, and more
- Integrate critical design for manufacturing choices in direct coordination with the manufacturing engineering team
- Perform packaging assessment of systems - resolve interferences, perform tolerance stack analyses, validate hardware stacks and fastener selections, integrate nominal gapping and shimming strategies, and more
- Support BOM and configuration management of various systems across multiple vehicles • Create and release drawings as part of system release sprints post-CDR, including incorporating GD&T as primary definition In order to be successful in this role, you must be someone who is self-motivated, adaptable and is able to lead your own projects to completion in a fast-paced environment. Ideally, you have significant mechanical or structural design experience and a proven track record completing collaborative projects effectively. On a weekly basis, you will be designing flight components for our upcoming Terran R vehicle using NX/TeamCenter, creating and releasing drawings as well as supporting fabrication of your components. You will also use your strong organizational skills to properly document your work and present your recommendations when decisions are needed.
About You:
- 2+ years of experience in a design engineering role.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related discipline.
- Experience with industry-standard CAD packages such as NX, CATIA, Creo, or SOLIDWORKS
- Fundamental knowledge of structures strength, stability and fatigue failure mechanisms.
Nice to haves but not required:
- 1+ years experience with NX/Teamcenter PLM
- 1+ years experience with GD&T and drafting