Staff Fluid Systems Engineer Verified today
About the Team
The Stage Fluids team designs and delivers the propellant, pressurant, pneumatics, and other fluid systems that turn structures into functioning rockets. The team has full ownership across design, production, test, and flight, maintaining a holistic view of Terran R, focused on integrated functionality. Working on-site at the factory means you're never far from the hardware, enabling rapid iteration and tight feedback loops across design and manufacturing.
About the Role
As a Staff Fluid Systems Engineer, you will be responsible for the fluid system architecture and function for a given vehicle fluid subsystem. You will apply expertise in system architecture, systems operations, and fluid thermodynamics to guide hardware design, system analysis, manufacturing, validation and operations.
- Own the vehicle fluid subsystem architecture and schematics, including system control scheme, system and component selection and sizing
- Conduct fluid and thermal analyses, including system sizing and characterization using 1D steady-state, fluid networks, and similar analytical methods
- Lead and participate in system and hardware design and manufacturing reviews
- Define and support test objectives and test campaigns to validate system design, system models and overall system performance, including integrated vehicle testing and launch
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or relevant discipline
- 8+ years of experience working with fluid systems
- Experience applying engineering fundamentals in system design, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer
- Experience with one or more fluid or thermal modeling tools for internal compressible and incompressible analysis
- Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language for scientific computing and automated test/simulation data analysis
Nice to Have
- Experience with launch vehicles and spacecraft
Compensation
Salary range: $164,000 to $246,000 USD. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, generous PTO and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.