Senior Embedded Engineer, AFSS

At Relativity Space were building rockets to serve todays needs and tomorrows breakthroughs. OurTerran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit meeting the growing demand for launchcapacity. But thats just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock newopportunities to advance science exploration and innovation pioneering progress that reaches beyondthe known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy ownership and impact exist at every level. Here youre not just executing tasks; youre solving problems that havent been solved before helping develop a rocket a factory and a business from the ground up. Whether youre in propulsion manufacturing software avionics or a corporate function youll 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 were writing together. Nowis a unique moment in time where its early enough to leave your mark on the product the process andthe culture but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The mostmeaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our decades of experience scaling world-class technology organizations like Google CEO Eric Schmidt is guiding Relativity into itsnext phase: advancing Terran R toward launch and building the foundation for long-term impact.

The Vehicle Software team develops the safety-critical software that runs on Terran R. The work spans a distributed real-time control system operating under extreme conditions like Mach 5 atmospheric flight with a deployment pace that allows you to see your code run on rocket engines daily. The team is building new system architecture from the ground up and just as importantly testing releasing and deploying it. You dont need an aerospace background: what matters is experience with high-reliability software for complex systems. This is a rare opportunity to shape the foundation of Terran Rs software stack while directly influencing performance reliability and flight success.

About the Role:

• Write concise documentation such as Concept of Operations Interface Control Documents and Software Design Documents.
• Work closely with internal Software and Hardware certification teams as well as external regulators and IV&V contractors to consistently deliver flight safety software and test artifacts for review. Take extreme ownership in ensuring Relativitys AFSS gets certified in time for first flight.
• Develop safety critical software for AFSS including bootloaders command and telemetry services device drivers software state machines and handling of flight termination events.
• Integrate best practices tools and lessons-learned between safety and non-safety critical embedded software teams ensuring both teams are able to support vehicle software projects throughout the Terran R development lifecycle.

About You:

• Bachelors in computer science or related technical field and 3 years relevant experience in software development.
• Proficient in C/C
• Experience with software development processes including source control bug tracking and design documentation.
• Experience capturing decomposing and deriving formal software requirements from system level requirements.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams.

Nice to haves but not required:

• Masters in Computer Science or related technical field and 5 years of experience in software development.
• Experience with verification and validation of safety critical software.
• Prior work on a launch vehicle.
• Experience in software safety standards such as RCC-319 DO-178 ISO 26262 or exposure to MISRA C/C.
• Experience with Embedded Linux VxWorks FreeRTOS and writing device drivers for embedded focused operating systems.

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