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Job Summary:
Relativity Space is building rockets to meet the growing demand for launch capacity and advance scientific exploration. The GNC Performance Engineer I will be responsible for driving interdisciplinary design decisions and performing analyses for engineering design trades, while collaborating with key design teams and improving software tooling.
Responsibilities:
• Closely work with key design teams to integrate their latest design data into a full simulation of the customer missions
• Develop and leverage software tooling for optimizing the launch and orbital trajectory of each of the key customer missions.
• Lead interdisciplinary design trade analyses to inform key decisions about the vehicle, the mission trajectories, or the mission ConOps.
• Define and maintain high-level vehicle and trajectory design requirements to inform the overall design process.
• Carrying out analysis for engineering design trades and driving design decisions based on the results.
• Implementing, maintaining, and improving software tooling in a variety of languages, ranging from core simulation capabilities to peripheral analysis utilities.
• Maintaining, establishing, and sometimes leading cross-functional collaboration with key teams across Vehicle Engineering.
Qualifications:
Required:
• An undergraduate or graduate degree (BS/MS/PhD) in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or related field
• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and ability to solve problems from first principles.
• Have previously worked on projects that required you to operate in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Have previously worked on projects that required you to utilize numerical techniques such as ODE's and optimization routines.
• Proficiency in high-level programming languages (e.g. Python, Julia, MATLAB).
Preferred:
• Familiarity with launch vehicles and trajectory design.
• Prior work in a startup or agile development environment.
• Demonstrated experiences in taking complex analysis results and clearly communicating conclusions and recommendations to decision makers.
• Experience working with advanced software development practices such as Docker, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), and dependency management.
Company:
Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D printed rockets. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Long Beach, California, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.
