Staff Thermal Engineer

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.

Requirements

• Develop, maintain, and mature integrated spacecraft thermal models at the vehicle, subsystem, and component levels
• Define thermal architectures and requirements and iterate hardware designs in collaboration with cross-disciplinary engineering teams
• Generate flight temperature predictions, margins, and off-nominal analyses, and communicate actionable guidance to the broader engineering team
• Ensure spacecraft payloads remains within operating and survival limits across all mission phases using robust passive and active thermal control strategies
• Correlate thermal models to component, subsystem, and vehicle-level test and/or flight data

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Generous PTO and sick leave policy
• Parental leave
• Annual learning and development stipend