Senior Counsel, Regulatory

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: 

Our legal team is small, nimble, and entrepreneurial. We support the foundations for success at scale across Relativity Space, and zealously partner with client teams as we develop our Factory of the Future. Our Senior Counsel, Regulatory will solve the Company’s legal challenges and burn down risk related to myriad regulatory regimes the Company faces, including national security, cybersecurity, government contracts. Further, this position will work closely to support the negotiation of and compliance with commercial and government contracts. Our team needs a proactive, experienced lawyer who is hungry, eager to develop new skills and tackle new projects, willing to present creative solutions to challenges, and capable of tackling tough issues, all while maintaining the highest levels of integrity – and promoting that integrity across the Company. This role may be located in any one of Relativity’s offices, including Long Beach, CA, Washington, D.C., Cape Canaveral, FL, or Stennis, MS. Fully remote options are not available.

About the Role:

• Work within the Company’s Regulatory Compliance team, serving as a subject matter expert on U.S. federal and international regulatory regimes relevant to aerospace and defense industries, including:
  • Government contracting requirements (FAR/DFARS)
  • National security reviews
  • Cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-171, CMMC)
  • Export controls (ITAR, EAR)
• Implement a risk management process for government contracts compliance for Relativity’s lines of business.
• Develop and implement internal risk management and compliance programs related to Relativity’s government business, with a specific emphasis on trade controls, procurement integrity, and security requirements.
• Work with Relativity’s Trade Compliance function to maintain an effective export compliance program under the ITAR and the EAR, including drafting compliance policies and procedures as well as administering training

About You:

• Law degree from an accredited law school and active license to practice law.
• 5+ years’ experience as practicing attorney, either with a large law firm or in-house.
• Experience analyzing and negotiating complex commercial and government contracts.
• Experience in government cybersecurity requirements and data privacy regulations.
• Ability to interface with Relativity’s federal and state government regulators and customers.
• Ability to receive a federal security clearance at the highest level issued to Relativity Space.

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Experience managing corporate compliance programs.
• Legal experience in export control matters
• Legal experience negotiating customer contracts, both commercial and government.
• Experience working in or with the aerospace industry

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.