Sr Software Engineer, Vehicle Software Infrastructure
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Job Location:
Long Beach, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 165000 - 211000
Posted on:
29 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 planet. With decades of experience scaling world-class technology organizations like Google CEO Eric Schmidt is guiding Relativity into its next 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:
- Design develop and maintain mission-critical Linux-based infrastructure supporting command telemetry simulation and automated test systems.
- Build and extend tools for executing tests across a range of environments including virtual machines HIL/SIL configurations and vehicle-in-the-loop setups.
- Optimize system performance and reliability with a focus on real-time high-throughput data processing in Linux environments.
- Contribute to architectural decisions sprint planning and roadmap discussions to ensure scalable maintainable systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including avionics ground software and flight software to ensure smooth integration and operational readiness.
- Mentor peers share best practices and help foster a culture of engineering excellence across the team.
About You:
- 5 years of professional software engineering experience including systems or infrastructure-level development.
- Proficiency in Rust and/or Python with strong understanding of performance concurrency and systems-level programming.
- Experience developing in Linux environments including working with real-time or performance-critical systems.
- Strong foundation in networking concepts (e.g. TCP/UDP sockets packet routing protocol design)
- Experience building or maintaining reliable testable software in CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to design and deliver robust solutions for low-latency high-throughput data pipelines.
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience developing or working with software-in-the-loop (SIL) hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) or real-time simulation systems.
- Familiarity with real-time Linux kernel tuning system observability or performance debugging.
- Experience building tools for command and telemetry injection test automation or avionics/hardware development environments.
- Exposure to robotics aerospace embedded systems or other mission-critical domains.
- Ability to lead technical investigations and contribute to architectural decisions in cross-functional teams.
- Background working on distributed systems large-scale simulation environments or hybrid software/hardware testing systems.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills especially working closely with hardware embedded and flight software teams.
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:
$165000 - $211000 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.
If you need a reasonable accommodation please contact us at .
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Spring
- .NET
- C/C++
- Go
- React
- OOP
- C#
- Data Structures
- JavaScript
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
A rocket company at the core, Relativity Space is on a mission to become the next great commercial launch company.
