Test Engineer Intern

Company Overview:

At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.

Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.

About the Team:

The Data and Control System team is responsible for developing a wide array of software and hardware systems that are responsible for test and launch efforts of Terran R stages, engines, and propulsion components. As part of this team, you will help build and operate massive outdoor test stands at the historic Stennis Space Center on the Gulf Coast, the largest rocket engine test complex in the country. Unique to this location, you will have the opportunity to get hands-on the fully integrated engine and stage assemblies, push the hardware to the limits, and witness rocket engines firing up close and personal! Check out this video to learn more about the Stennis test team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-HJ79-4iOs

What you'll do:

• Design advanced control and data acquisition systems for propulsion test stands, including panel layouts, power and load analysis, fabrication drawings, and instrumentation lists
• Solve a wide range of technical challenges, across broad ranges of timeframe, complexity, cost, and long-term impact
• Support test and launch operations and perform related improvements to existing test stands

Past intern projects (just a few examples!)

• Real time image processing used for gas detection
• Worked on test stand infrastructure to help run tests more often and more efficiently
• Design printed circuit boards for a variety of applications
• Test rocket engines!

Skills/Competencies we're looking for:

• Current undergraduate or graduate student earning degree electrical, computer, software, aerospace, or mechanical engineering, computer science, or other related field
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and intense startup environment
• Ownership of projects from beginning to end, with minimum oversight
• Experience in C/C++ and/or python
• Basic knowledge of common instrumentation, pressure transducers, thermocouples, RTD, flow meters, accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells
• Basic knowledge of data acquisition hardware

Successful candidates must clear a background check administered by the US government to obtain clearance for on-site work at our government partner location in Stennis, Mississippi.

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.

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:

$31—$35 USD