Senior Mechanisms Systems Engineer

Lead integrated product activities across mechanical design, actuators, GNC, avionics, and software teams to ensure seamless system performance

Drive development tests, functional verification, and flight readiness by authoring test plans, executing tests, and establishing success criteria

Anticipate technical and logistical risks, develop mitigation strategies, and align priorities across engineering disciplines and schedules

Coordinate the design, manufacturing, integration, and test schedules for complex mechanism systems

Take hands-on ownership of emergent challenges—whether designing test fixtures, specifying sensors, writing test automation, or leading root-cause investigations

Background in actuator systems, flight mechanisms, or thrust vector control

$132,000

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$181,500 USD

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As a Senior Mechanisms Systems Engineer, you will be the technical and programmatic owner for large, cross-discipline mechanism systems such as thrust vector control.

Reporting directly to the Mechanisms team, you will lead system-level design and integration, guiding requirements, architecture, and verification across hardware and software interfaces.

The Mechanisms Team at Relativity Space designs and delivers the complex, high-performance mechanical systems that enable launch-vehicle flight, landing, and reusability. We own the full lifecycle of mission-critical hardware—actuators, latches, and thrust vector control (TVC) systems—while partnering deeply with Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC), Avionics, and Software to create integrated, operable solutions. Our work spans concept development through design, analysis, test, flight operations, and recovery, always balancing performance, reliability, and build rate.