Relativity Space
Senior Manager, Vehicle Fluids Analysis
$184K–$276K
Long Beach, California, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of relevant experience across at least 1 aerospace vehicle program lifecycle; 5+ years leading engineering teams.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field.
About the job
Leads a fluids analysis team and provides thermal-fluid and CFD guidance for Terran R vehicle hardware, operations, and flight systems.
What you'll do
- Manage the team’s analysis planning, resources, goals, and delivery against program milestones.
- Perform and oversee thermal-fluid calculations and CFD analyses; validate models and quantify uncertainty using literature and test data.
- Develop analysis tools and methodologies, and mentor engineers and hardware owners.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field.
- 10+ years of relevant experience across at least 1 aerospace vehicle program lifecycle.
- 5+ years leading engineering teams delivering hardware on complex, cross-functional projects.
- Proficiency in Python or a similar scientific-computing language, plus experience in 1D flow modeling and industry-standard CFD tools and workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience building volume of fluid and/or internal compressible flow CFD models.
- Experience developing simulation toolsets and workflows, e.g. for HPC.
Pay
$184,000 — $276,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, GFSSP, FloCAD, STAR-CCM+, Fluent, FLOW-3D, CFD
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