Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Linux

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 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:

As an Embedded Linux Software Engineer you will be a key member of our embedded software team responsible for developing testing and documenting firmware that gets deployed to all avionics boxes throughout our rocket this role youll develop embedded Linux software for network switch and camera platforms creating production-grade applications and system services that power real-world devices deployed at scale. Youll focus on the integration of networking video and hardware interfaces implementing software that interacts directly with hardware peripherals networking subsystems and video pipelines running on embedded SoCs. Working closely with hardware systems and platform teams youll lead system bring-up and platform integration efforts for new hardware debug complex issues across the full stack from hardware and kernel to drivers and application layers and participate in validation and performance tuning. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to software architecture improvements maintain high-performance and reliable code and support critical testing and troubleshooting activities in both lab and field environments as we build aerospace technology that flies.

About You:

• 5 years of experience developing software for embedded systems
• Strong programming skills in C/C
• Experience developing applications on embedded Linux platforms
• Experience debugging using tools such as gdb strace perf tcpdump etc.
• Familiarity with Linux networking and system programming
• Experience working with cross-compiled systems and build systems
• Strong debugging skills across hardware and software boundaries

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience with camera pipelines video processing or multimedia frameworks
• Experience with network switching routing or networking protocols
• Familiarity with low-level embedded development (MCU RTOS or bare-metal)
• Experience with hardware bring-up and board support package
• Experience with Yocto or similar Linux build systems
• Experience developing or modifying Linux device drivers
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing for embedded systems

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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