Senior Manager, Vehicle Fluids Analysis

Job overview

The Senior Manager, Vehicle Fluids Analysis works onsite in Long Beach, CA. The hiring range is $184,000–$276,000 per year. The role leads the Stage Fluids team, which designs and delivers fluid systems for Relativity Space’s Terran R rocket. The manager guides a team of analysts and provides technical direction for fluid dynamics and thermal systems across vehicle design and operations. The work supports integrated hardware development through analysis, modeling, validation, and collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams.

What you'll do

• Manage and mentor a fluids analysis team
• define, scope, and schedule analyses
• align analysis fidelity with development phases
• plan resources and track analysis progress
• perform thermal-fluid calculations
• develop and execute computational fluid dynamics analyses
• validate models and quantify uncertainty using literature and test data
• mature tools and methods for predicting fluid behavior across flight phases
• guide hardware owners in meeting fluid requirements.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior manager

vehicle fluids analysis

aerospace

rocket development

long beach ca

relativity space

stage fluids

thermal-fluid analysis

computational fluid dynamics

engineering leadership

terran r

$184k–$276k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Competitive salary and equity
• paid time off and sick leave
• parental leave
• annual learning and development stipend.

Why this role

Requires an engineering bachelor’s degree or related field, 10 or more years of relevant experience across an aerospace vehicle program lifecycle, and five or more years leading engineering teams. Requires scientific-computing programming experience and fluid-network and CFD analysis experience.

About the employer

Relativity Space is hiring for this role. Industry: Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing. Sector: 33.