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Civil Engineer Intern - Summer 2025

John C. Stennis Space Center, United States
Internship

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 Stennis team at Relativity Space is responsible for designing, building, and operating world-class test stands to support the Terran R stages, engines, and propulsion components. As part of this team, you will help support the build out and operation of 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 experience building out infrastructure and facilities to support engine testing and witness rocket engines firing up close and personal!  

About the Role:

  • Design facilities and infrastructure to support advanced propulsion test stands, including 3D modeling of structures, fluids and structural analysis, fabrication drawings, fluids P&IDs, and overall equipment layout 
  • Solve a wide range of technical challenges, across broad ranges of timeframe, complexity, cost, and long-term impact 
  • Supervise contractors 
  • Construction site reporting 
  • Independently run small scale construction projects from start to finish 

About You: 

  • Current undergraduate or graduate student earning degree in mechanical engineering, civil engineering, construction management or a related technical field 
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced and intense startup environment 
  • Experience with 3D Computer-Aided Design (CAD) 
  • Basic knowledge of common construction and engineering principles 
  • Ownership of projects from beginning to end, with minimal oversight 

Past Relativity intern projects (just a few examples!) 

  • Tested flight quick disconnects   
  • Implemented computer vision on the robots to implemented live depth data   
  • Worked on adding automated sanding/grinding capabilities to our print cells   
  • Worked on test stand infrastructure to help run tests more often and more efficiently  
  • Oversaw designing the PCB for the High Voltage Battery Management System (HVBMS)  
  • Helped set up an anomaly detection framework for stargate printers   
  • Printed rocket engine parts!   

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.

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$38 USD

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.

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