Manager, Software Engineering Factory Platform

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:

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:

As an Engineering Manager on the Factory Platform team youll lead a squad building mission-critical tooling for design and simulation engineers who are optimizing the performance of Terran R. Your team will deliver the engineering analysis platform design tools and data pipelines that transform test stand telemetry and simulation results into actionable insights. Youll work directly with propulsion structures avionics and test engineers to understand their workflows remove bottlenecks and build software that accelerates their ability to iterate validate and improve the vehicle with rigor and speed.

• Hire grow and manage a team of 5-10 engineers (1:1s performance reviews career development)
• Set team roadmap and priorities in partnership with design and test engineering stakeholders
• Establish engineering standards: code quality testing deployment incident response
• Guide architectural decisions and keep your team unblocked
• Build a high-performing culture of ownership and continuous improvement
• Ship code as much as possible time permitting

Technologies we use:

• Python React Typescript Go
• Iceberg BigQuery Duckdb DBT Postgres
• AWS GCP Kubernetes (both cloud and on-prem) Terraform Helm

About You:

• Bachelors or higher in CS or a related engineering field
• 5 years of software engineering experience across multiple production systems
• Proven track record hiring retaining and developing engineers
• Expert in React and modern frontend tooling
• Fluent in at least one backend language (Go Python) and willing to range across the stack
• Comfortable driving architectural decisions and building buy-in across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
• Strong written and verbal communication - you can write a crisp design doc and also give useful timely feedback to a struggling engineer

Nice to haves but not required:

• Bachelors or higher in CS or related engineering field
• 3 years engineering management experience with direct reports (5-10 team size)
• 7 years prior software engineering experience
• Strong hiring retention and talent development track record
• Full-stack technical foundation (frontend and backend)
• Excellent communication: technical tradeoffs strategy docs feedback influence

Nice to haves:

• Experience managing managers or multiple teams
• Background in engineering analysis tools scientific computing or data-intensive applications
• Familiarity with simulation CAD/CAE or test data systems
• Aerospace automotive or hardware-driven industry experience
• DevOps MLOps or data platform engineering background

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.

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