Lead, Structural Analysis Engineering (Stress, Fatigue & Damage Tolerance)
Relativity Space
| Company | Relativity Space |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | Long Beach |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Lead |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 18 Mar 2026 |
| Last verified | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us. About the Team:
The Integrated Performance team owns the holistic view of how Terran R comes together, ensuring that every system on the vehicle and ground is capable of achieving ambitious performance, reliability, and reusability goals. The team works across the full launch system—from trajectory design and aerodynamics to reliability analysis and post-flight data review—with technical leadership influence across the entire product lifecycle. Beyond analysis, team members engage hands-on with hardware, testing, and operations, with the authority to lead and drive meaningful programmatic change.
The Integrated Analysis group accelerates Relativity’s hardware engineering through advanced analysis, life prediction, and modern tools. The team enables robust, lightweight, and reusable structures by leading the integration of fatigue, fracture, durability, and inspection considerations early in design and throughout vehicle maturation.
About the Role:
As a Structural Analysis Lead, you will provide technical leadership for the structural integrity, strength, durability, and life management of flight hardware across the vehicle. You will be responsible for defining and executing structural analysis strategies spanning static strength, fatigue and damage tolerance, fracture mechanics, and structural dynamics.
In this role, you will guide the development, verification, and certification of primary and secondary structures from early design through flight operations. You will work closely with design, materials, manufacturing, and test teams to ensure structurally robust designs that meet performance, reliability, and reusability requirements.
Cross-Functional Leadership & Tools
Oversee a team of analysts while maintaining direct technical contribution
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to structural analysts and engineers
Collaborate with design, materials, manufacturing, and test teams to ensure structurally robust and manufacturable designs
Establish and improve structural analysis standards, best practices, and verification workflows
Develop automation and analysis tools using scripting environments such as Python or MATLAB to improve analysis efficiency
Structural Analysis Leadership
Lead structural analysis activities for major vehicle structures across component, subsystem, and vehicle levels
Define structural analysis methodologies, requirements, and design margins for flight-critical hardware
Provide technical leadership across static stress, fatigue, fracture mechanics, and durability assessment