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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.\nJoining 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.\nAbout the Team: \nDark Matter Lab is a high-autonomy innovation lab built for rapid experimentation, deep-techprototyping, and bold moonshot thinking. We're a small team of hands-on builders exploringthe edges of what's possible, turning raw ideas into world-changing technologies that couldreshape the future of aerospace and beyond.\nHere, there are no roadmaps handed down - only frontiers to navigate. We operate withspeed, embrace ambiguity, and value learning through building. Whether we're developing newhardware, prototyping full-stack systems, or pursuing ideas with breakthrough potential, ourwork lives at the edge of what's next. You'll be part of a small, multidisciplinary teamempowered to define your own projects, move fast, and bring ideas to life. Ideas that one daymay advance space systems, autonomous factories, or entirely new industries. \nDark Matter Lab lives within Relativity Space, a company building the next-generationcommercial rocket. By incubating bold ideas and exploring novel applications of Relativity's corecapabilities, Dark Matter Lab aims to create high-impact programs with long-term value forRelativity, the aerospace industry, and society at large. \nIf you're driven by curiosity, motivated by impact, and excited to work where the rules haven'tbeen written yet, Dark Matter Lab is where you belong.\nAbout the Role:\nAs part of the 10-person founding team of Dark Matter Labs, you'll be empowered to identify, explore, analyze, prototype, and realize world-changing ideas in space. This role will allow you to bring your own passions for space as well as explore, find, and prove out new moonshots on the cutting edge of science and engineering.\nMoonshot Engineers will be wearing many different hats, from technical leadership, detailed design & analysis, prototype build & testing, vendor management & POs, and other responsibilities necessary to make moonshots a reality.\nThis role will be expected to take ownership of a handful of moonshots and drive them all the way from an ambiguous \"What if...\" idea, organizing contributions from other lab members, proving the idea via prototype testing, and finally realizing the idea through design and production of a scaling product.Likewise, this role will also be contributing directly to a number of other moonshots through technology exploration, detailed analysis, part design, prototype build or testing, and other engineering efforts. \nAbout You:\nBachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a related field.\n7+ years of experience in design and delivery of complex systems or products\nPassionate self-starter with a track record of charting a path through ambiguity, leading technical projects, organizing efforts & people, and managing timelines and expectations\nDeep technical expertise in one core discipline (i.e. Mechanical, Electrical, Software, etc.) but familiar & comfortable with a multitude of other disciplines\nGreat communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with many different other mindsets and perspectives and willingness to challenge and be challenged\nHands-on design, build, and test experience with hardware and/or software required for prototyping - familiar with or willing to learn CAD, EE/PCB, harnessing, embedded SW, python, test hardware, etc... \nNice to have but not required: \nProven track record of delivering tangible hardware or product in highly open ended or ambiguous environments or product spaces\nPrior experience at hardware & software early phase technology exploration or innovation labs (i.e. GoogleX, Skunkworks, etc..) \nAt 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.\nCompensation 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.\nHiring Range:\n$144,000—$307,000 USD\nWe 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.\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at .\n Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. 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