Sr Systems Engineer
- Pay
- $132,000 – $198,000 per year
- Location
- Long Beach, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 30 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- systems engineering
- requirements management
- risk management
Also useful
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- scripting
Stated benefits & perks
- Parental leave
- Pto
- Learning stipend
About the Role
- As a Senior Systems Engineer you will be leading the creation, development, streamlining, and or eliminating Systems Engineering processes across the company to support an efficient, product-focused culture. Daily Activities Include finding pain points with existing processes and proposing solutions, proactively working with the Software & IT department to brainstorms solutions and to help set priorities, and prototype, implement, and rollout processes, tools, and automation that enable better design and test collaboration across the company
About You
- BS in Engineering or related field
- 5+ years of systems engineering experience
- Successful development and roll-out of department or company-wide processes
- Proven ability to work with intern IT and Dev Ops teams to create tools
- At least 1 full life cycle experience, from concept to completion, for either process development or tool development
Nice to haves but not required
- Graduate degree (MS) in engineering or related field
- Hands-on experience in the design, integration, test, and operation of complex systems
- Scripting experience
- Experience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
Additional information
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.
Pay and benefits
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: $132,000—$198,000 USD
Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.
About Relativity Space
At Relativity Space, we're building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that's just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven't been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up.
Whether you're in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you'll 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 we're writing together.
Now is a unique moment in time where it's early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team
The Systems Engineering team ensures that Terran R comes together as a cohesive, high-performing, and scalable system. Within the department, one team focuses on building tools and processes to manage requirements, track decisions, and identify and mitigate risk - enabling faster, more informed development across the program.
Engineers work across domains to understand complex problems, identify solutions, and implement them - all with deep technical knowledge, not just documentation. The other team focuses on the vehicle itself, working across teams to ensure all subsystems of Terran R function together as intended, burning down technical risk, and driving informed decisions at every stage of the vehicle lifecycle.
Engineers are empowered to lead high-impact efforts, from major test campaigns to console operations during launch, and are trusted to drive improvements across fluids, structures, avionics, and more.
Regardless of which team you're on, you'll be part of a high-visibility, high-impact department at a pivotal moment in the program, where decisions made today on trades, architecture, and process will shape not just the first launch, but the long-term trajectory of Relativity.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
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.
From Relativity Space's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 10, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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The Sr Systems Engineer posting at Relativity Space states compensation of $132,000 – $198,000 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Relativity Space's official career site.
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