Software Engineer II, MAVS

Company Overview:  

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:  

Relativity is seeking a highly motivated Software Engineer to join the Mission Assurance and Vehicle Simulation (MAVS) Software team.  You will work with top talent from diverse industries and leading companies such as SpaceX, Google, Amazon to name a few. You’ll play a key role in designing and building systems to configure and test our Terran-R rocket supporting our stakeholders including Avionics, Guidance Navigation and Control, Propulsion, Test and Launch Operations. MAVS team is at the forefront of driving Relativity Space towards our mission of a multiplanetary future, from changing how we manufacture rockets to how we fly them.

About the Role: 

As a member of the MAVS team will, you will design and implement our team’s software consisting of:

• Hardware-in-the-loop test software infrastructure
• Hardware-out-of-the-loop (Software-in-the-loop) test software infrastructure
• Vehicle proxy
• Vehicle configuration
• Vehicle software deployment

You will help build the systems that tie together the functions and interactions of all parts of the rocket, and provide the ability to rapidly iterate on designs. You will own modules of the team’s systems, work as a cross functional member of the team on all systems, and bring your ideas to improve technology and development processes.  You’ll work alongside our stakeholders to configure and test simulated and actual hardware and gain insights to improve features, reliability, scalability and extensibility.

About You:  

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field AND 3+ years of experience in software development; OR 5+ years in relevant production development experience.
• Advanced knowledge in one of the following with some familiarity of others: C++, Rust, Python, Java, C#
• Experience designing and building high performance and extensible applications or services
• Familiarity with containerization and deployment technologies like Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with continuous integration
• Tenacious drive to find, fix and prevent issues through automated observability and detection
• Track record of planning and delivering projects on time to meet team objectives

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Experience with cloud services on platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Experience developing RESTful frameworks
• Experience with front end framework like React, Angular or Vue
• Experience working with simulated and emulated hardware

Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous vacation policy, an annual L&D stipend and more! 

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.