Vehicle Integration and Test Intern - Summer 2025

About the Team: 

The Vehicle Integration and Test team at Relativity Space pulls together the efforts of all other engineering and manufacturing teams to deliver flight-ready vehicles for test and launch.  To meet our goals, we will build best in class manufacturing, test, and quality control processes to keep our team moving fast while still producing high quality, well understood products. The Vehicle Integration and Test Engineers will be responsible for defining and executing the vehicle-level build flow/operations and test verification plans for all hardware that comes through the Integration work center. This role lives within the Integration Engineering team which drives efforts to establish the manufacturing, business practices and processes necessary to accomplish that goal. Partnering with the Vehicle Manufacturing team, the Vehicle Integration and Test team will be the focal points for putting together all of the pieces of the vehicle, ensuring the first rockets built in our factory are primed and ready for their first orbital flight. 

What you'll do: 

• Define, architect, and establish the product flow of flight hardware through the Integration workcenter. Identify and implement the tools required to support an optimized, efficient flow - from large scale tools to test stands.  
• Identify capital tooling and work center capability needs and lead the efforts of standing up key Factory capabilities.  
• Develop integrated test plans and procedures from conceptualization through execution to verify flight hardware is ready for shipment. 
• Help drive the development of business tools and processes that will be used to manufacture the first launch vehicle. In parallel, define and pilot the long-term ERP, MES, and QMS solutions that will enable high-quality, efficient vehicle manufacturing. 

Past 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!   

Skills/Competencies we're looking for: 

• Obtaining BS or MS degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, manufacturing engineering or related field. 
• 1+ years relevant internship experience preferred, not required 
• Experience leading, executing, or management projects in a fast-paced environment through engineering projects.  
• Experience planning and test conducting hardware-critical operations, working with DAQs for test article command/control preferred, not required.  
• To be successful in this role, you need to be able to thrive in ambiguity, identify problems and quickly resolve them, and provide definition to the previously undefined.  
• You will need to balance a scrappy, get-it-done attitude with a vision for the long-term processes required for scaling and efficiency! 

We believe varied perspectives & backgrounds strengthen our team. Prior experience in aerospace is not required.