Company Overview: Relativity is the first and only company to automate aerospace manufacturing by integrating intelligent robotics, software, and proprietary metal 3D printing technology. Disrupting 60 years of aerospace, Relativity offers a radically simplified supply chain, building a rocket with 100x fewer parts in less than 60 days. Our long-term goal is to upgrade humanity’s industrial base on Earth and on Mars.  

Team: The Additive Development team is responsible for development and maturing the core additive manufacturing technology used to product Relativity’s orbital class launch vehicles. Your team will span a broad range of disciplines from material science to robotic welding.

What you’ll do: The Additive Development group is looking for a Technical Program Manager (Additive) to be a steward of technical excellence for Relativity’s next generation Additive Manufacturing Technology. You will bring the specific foci of the technical program together through understanding how systems at all levels (components, sub-systems, parameters, simulations, controls, system architecture) relate to others to catalyze the system into something greater than it’s constitutive components.

Where others add complexity, your primary role is to simplify; requirements, assumptions, architecture, strategy, even code. You will be expected to leverage your leadership and soft-skills to serve as a glue function, coordinating efforts of multiple teams within the Additive Development organization to architect and mature the core technical stack to meet the new demands of printing our Terran R launch vehicle.

You will be expected to bridge the gap between technical engineering teams and communicating roadmaps and progress to our executive team. Working with key stakeholders, you will coordinate development initiatives to define OKRs and track progress across an array of technical problems and phenomena related to depositing molten metal to form an orbital launch vehicle.

Your ability to exercise technical judgment in solving engineering challenges by connecting the physical with the virtual will be necessary to ensure all of the individual technical campaigns result in a catalyst for the technical capability and capacity of the Stargate Printers.

What you need to know:

• BS or MS. in Engineering, Computer Science or comparable STEM field
• Fundamental understanding of design and sizing of mechanisms and mechanical structures
• 4+ years of working with robotic systems
• Proficient in Python, or C++ and common CICD tools
• Expertise in common networking and communication protocols (EtherCAT preferred)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent ability to synthesize complex analyses from multiple domain experts to tie into the bigger picture/architecture
• DSP, data manipulation and sanitization best practices

Nice to haves:

• PhD. in Engineering, Computer Science or comparable STEM field
• Experience with MES, ERP systems or working in a manufacturing environment
• 4+ years working with ROS1 or ROS2
• 6+ years of software development experience in the industry, comfortable using git and Linux environments
• 1+ year of managerial experience leading technical teams
• Fluency in processes and infrastructure for developing, operating, and monitoring machine learning models
• Experience working with perception systems
• Experience with decentralized control architectures

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.