Sr System Safety Engineer

Long Beach, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 142000 - 181500

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Relativity Space were building rockets to serve todays needs and tomorrows breakthroughs. OurTerran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit meeting the growing demand for launchcapacity. But thats just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock newopportunities to advance science exploration and innovation pioneering progress that reaches beyondthe known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy ownership and impact exist at every level. Here youre not just executing tasks; youre solving problems that havent been solved before helping develop a rocket a factory and a business from the ground up. Whether youre in propulsion manufacturing software avionics or a corporate function youll 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 were writing together. Nowis a unique moment in time where its early enough to leave your mark on the product the process andthe culture but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The mostmeaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

The Integrated Performance team owns the holistic view of how TerranR comes together ensuring that every system on the vehicle and groundis capable of achieving our ambitious objectives. The team works acrossthe full launch system from trajectory design and aerodynamics toreliability analysis and beyond with direct influence on all parts of theproduct lifecycle from conceptual design to post-flight data analysis team members engage hands-on with hardwareand operations with the mission and authority to drive meaningfulprogrammatic change. With a unique organizational structure theintegrated performance team spans multiple technical domains andembeds directly with partner teams to solve the hardest multi-disciplinaryproblems. The team operates with a rare scale: large enough to supportcomplex development yet small enough that individual contributors havemeaningful impact.

About the Role:

As a System Safety Engineer you will be responsible for working across all engineering disciplines to ensure mission-specific risks have been sufficiently mitigated and our launch system is ready for flight.

Take ownership of risk tracking for a critical element of Terran Rprogram (e.g. fluids structures avionics engine) and manage risk of thatelement throughout testing and flight
Organize and run flight readiness reviews to ensure technical readiness and flight data reviews to track action items and learnings from actions and findings to completion
Provide real time (on console) support for test and flight as the authorityfor vehicle risk communicating to leadership and executive team asrequired. Drive on-console resolution of technical risks to achievesuccessful test or flight outcome
Support anomaly investigations as needed via use of tools such as faulttrees fishbones and 5 whys. Work to resolve anomalies on day of testand launch in real time on console
Perform independent assessments of subsystem and system designs to develop understanding of vulnerabilities associated risk and drive architectural decision-making to improve vehicle reliability

About You:

Bachelors degree in an engineering discipline
5 years of experience with engineering problem solving in designanalysis or test of systems

Nice to Haves but Not Required:

Experience with engineering risk management engineering configuration system safety tools/frameworks
Experience with anomaly resolution and documentation of anomaly reports
Self-starter and willing to continuously learn new skills to drive the process and technology improvements

At Relativity Space we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience qualifications and other job-related factors.

Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity a generous PTO and sick leave policy parental leave an annual learning and development stipend and more!To see some of the benefits & perks we offer please visit here.

Hiring Range:

$142000 - $181500 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC