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 Factory Platform team builds a wide array of software across Relativity's manufacturing and test process. This includes our in-house ERP software, telemetry data ingestion and storage systems, applications for data visualization and analysis, enterprise data warehousing, and other tools that our engineers and operators work with on a daily basis. This team works with almost every discipline across the company, including design engineers, manufacturing and process engineers, to supply chain and inventory teams, and more.
If you're interested in building world-class tools and services for small groups of expert power-users, bridging the gap between software and every nearly other engineering discipline, and in learning how a rocket is manufactured from initial designs all the way through launch, this is the team for you.
About the Role:
On the Factory Platform team, you will play a key role in the software development life cycle from initial concept, trade studies, design, implementation, and ongoing iteration.
- Develop applications used to plan and schedule purchasing and manufacturing operations, access and analyze engine and component test data, and several other tools used by engineers and operators across the company.
- Follow agile development practices and implement quality software that is continuously integrated and deployed.
- Solve complex problems with simple solutions. Work directly with users and stakeholder teams to figure out system requirements, implement the solutions, and iterate.
Technologies we use:
- Python, React, Typescript, Go.
- Spark, Iceberg, Duckdb, Redshift, DBT, Postgres, Mongo.
- AWS, Kubernetes (both cloud and on-prem), Terraform, Helm.
About You:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related Engineering field (Computer, Software, Electrical, Aerospace).
- 7+ years of experience building, shipping, and iterating on multiple apps and services in your career so far.
- Experience designing in collaboration with non-software stakeholders.
- Proficient in whatever languages and tools you love most, and willing to learn new ones.
- Expert in front-end frameworks (React) and related tools.
- Passionate about mentoring and growing the engineers around you.
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience designing and scaling service architectures that support high-performance front-end operations.
- Experience with systems-level programming like synchronization primitives, memory management, etc.
- Demonstrated experience developing low-latency, safety-critical front-ends.
- Experience developing, debugging, and shipping software products on large code bases that span platforms and tools.
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.
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Relativity Space Long Beach, California, USA Office
We have two sites in Long Beach, CA's Space Beach: "The Wormhole," a 1M sq. ft. factory, once Boeing C-17's home. Nearby, "The Portal" supports Aeon R engine production for our Terran R launch vehicle.
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