Senior Software Engineer, Industrial Automation

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 Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today that means partnering directly with teams across design materials manufacturing and test and launch to design implement and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications industrial automation data analytics infrastructure and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term the team is laying the groundwork for a modular scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.

About the Role:

On the Industrial Automation Software team you will play a key role in the software development life cycle from initial concept trade studies design implementation root cause analysis and production ready roll out.

• Follow Agile development practices and implement quality software that is continuously integrated and deployable.
• Solve complex problems using simple elegant solutions. Your work will power software that operates factory systems validates development hardware tests engines and launches rockets.
• Develop user interfaces that are used across the company from component testing engine testing launch control systems and elsewhere.

About You:

• Bachelors degree or higher in a related Engineering field (Computer Software Electrical Aerospace) or Computer Science.
• 5 years of experience in one of more of the following areas:
  • Designing and implementing low-level architectures optimized for real-time hardware control.
  • Developing responsive user interfaces and data backends to manage safety-critical systems.
  • Building comprehensive test and simulation environments
• Proficient in C/C Rust or Go.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and agile methodologies in high-performance environments.

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience with microservices architecture tailored for high-performance distributed systems.
• Experience managing high-volume low-latency data flows.
• Knowledge of synchronization primitives memory management and systems-level performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and deploy safety-critical software with direct hardware interfaces.
• Experience debugging and shipping complex software products across extensive multi-platform codebases.

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