At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll 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 we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The IT team is responsible for the full scope of computing infrastructure, end-user systems, servers, virtualization, cloud, networking, software services, telecommunications, and information security. You’ll support every function across the company, from the production floor to flight operations, enabling Relativity’s world-class team to design, build, and launch rockets. The team balances near-term execution with long-term vision, developing scalable solutions and processes to enable the company's growth. The evolving complexity of our IT environment offers opportunities to stretch and sharpen problem solving and hands-on technical skills. We invest in our people, encouraging ownership, cross-training, and advancement, so our team can grow as fast and ambitiously as the company itself.
About the Role:
- Lead, mentor, and scale a team of high-performing systems engineers specializing in Linux, Windows, compute, storage, virtualization, systems architecture, and integrations
- Orchestrate and align infrastructure projects against company priorities and launch-readiness milestones (eg: storage modernization, data strategy and migrations, and hypervisor overhaul/scalability
- Provide architectural-level technical leadership, integrating emerging technologies into cohesive roadmaps that enable test, manufacturing, and engineering operations to scale efficiently
- Drive cross-functional collaboration between IT Ops, DevOps, Cybersecurity, Networking, and Test Operations, turning new cooperative momentum into durable, high-impact outcomes
- Establish and maintain operational and architectural standards across infrastructure domains, ensuring resilience, scalability, and security
- Be a player-coach when needed; provide hands-on technical contribution or guidance when necessary, especially in complex or high-stakes projects, while maintaining strategic leadership and team enablement focus
About You:
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise infrastructure or systems engineering, with at least 3+ years in a technical leadership or management role
- Proven expertise across compute, storage, and virtualization ecosystems (e.g., VMware, KVM, Proxmox, Hyper-V)
- Strong background in systems architecture and design, including hybrid cloud integration and on-prem resource optimization
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers, manage complex project portfolios and associated documentation, and align execution with organizational strategy
- Experience with enterprise datacenter operations, backup/DR strategy, and infrastructure scaling for high-throughput or mission-critical workloads
- Comfortable serving as a hands-on technical leader (“player-coach”), able to dive into architecture design or complex troubleshooting when the situation requires it
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience in aerospace, manufacturing, or high-performance compute environments.
- Familiarity with software-defined storage (Ceph, MinIO, Red Hat ODF) and container-native storage for Kubernetes clusters.
- Background in hybrid or multi-cloud architectures (Azure, GCP, AWS).
- Prior success building or maturing an infrastructure engineering function in a fast-scaling technical organization.
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.
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 [email protected].
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