At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.
Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.
About the Team:
The Vehicle Software team is responsible for the software on all Avionics boxes on the vehicle. This spans the operating system image, the applications running on those boxes, and software configuration and deployment. We are also responsible for the test infrastructure required to validate the software, such as the HITL and HOOTL test environments. Finally, our team supports rocket manufacturing and system test efforts starting with Avionics box testing, engine testing, stage integration and checkouts, stage qualification/hot fires, and concluding with stacked vehicle testing and launch.
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 Relativity’s 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:
- Bachelor’s 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:
- Master’s 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.
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:
$165,000—$211,000 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.
