Staff Software Engineer, Relativity Space
Flight
$194-249k
Plus equity
Office located in Long Beach, CA
Aerospace manufacturer of 3D printed rockets
Open for applications
Aerospace manufacturer of 3D printed rockets
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$194-249k
Plus equity
Office located in Long Beach, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To upgrade humanity’s industrial base on Earth and on Mars.
Role
Who you are
- An undergraduate or graduate degree in a relevant engineering discipline (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering) and 7+ years of production development experience
- Deep professional experience and technical expertise delivering production-level and real time embedded software
- Expert in Rust, C++, and/or other system languages
- Expert in algorithms and data structures
- Expert in Operating System concepts such as memory management, CPU shielding, scheduling, etc
- Experience with software development processes including: source control, bug tracking, and CI/CD
Desirable
- Experience with developing software to a safety standard and achieving formal certification with a governing body (e.g. NASA, FAA, FDA, etc.)
- Familiarity with performing Hazard Analysis, FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and Root Cause Analysis, and familiarity with FDIR (Fault Detection Isolation, Recovery) concepts
- Experience with developing fault and failure tolerant system and knowledge of voting and internal state synchronization
- Experience with micro-service architectures
- Experience with systems-level programming like synchronization primitives, memory management, etc
- Experience with different inter-process communication methods
- Experience with networking protocols (UDP vs TCP), OSI layers. switching and routing
- Experience with message passing protocol such as flatbuffer or protobuf
- Experience developing for ARM platform
- Experience with Docker
- Experience with Python
What the job involves
- As a Staff Flight Software Engineer, you will have a major role in the full life cycle of Flight Software from gathering requirements, defining architecture, development, integration to the commissioning and support of test and launch operations
- Define and refine software requirements and design criteria with partner teams
- Write concise documentation such as Concept of Operations, Interface Control Documents, and Software Design Documents
- Architect and deliver core flight software with a strong focus on meeting system and performance requirements such as latency, allowed jitter, and control frequency
- Work closely with GNC engineers to integrate complex algorithms for vehicle ascent and re-entry, descent and landing
- Work closely with Embedded Software Engineers and Avionics to integrate vehicle sensor data such as GPS, IMU, Radar, and to control vehicle equipment such as valves, thrust vector controls, and landing grid fins
- Develop telemetry system that prioritizes, filters, stores and forwards, and encodes/decodes telemetry to RF format, and routes that data through ground stations and to data centers
- Support the development and integration of testing infrastructure such as HITL (Hardware-In-The-Loop) and HOOTL (Hardware-Out-Of-The-Loop) and physics and fluid sims
- Build automated unit, integration and system level tests in CI/CD
- Focus on maximizing the team's velocity by defining processes, best practices, integrating modern tools and technologies, and mentoring junior engineers
Our take
Relativity Space has set out to build humanity’s multiplanetary future with its innovative 3D printed rockets. The company is at the forefront of software-defined manufacturing, combining 3D printing, AI, and autonomous robotics to create the “factory of the future.” By utilizing 3D printing, Relativity has simplified its supply chain, building rockets in less than 60 days that require 100x fewer parts.
The company has completed its flagship Terran 1 rocket and has begun its initial round of test flights. While the first launches technically failed, as the rocket failed to reach orbit, the attempt is still classified as a resounding success as the rocket managed the highest stress state inflicted on the rocket, Max-Q. The company is set to test the Terran 1 rocket again, before moving on to its Terran R rocket. While the company faces competition against SpaceX, Relativity Space’s cheaper and accelerated building process is well set to be a fierce competitor.
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Company Specialist
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2023
$20m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$650m
SERIES E
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Additional stipend for employee wellness
- 401(k)
- Equity
- 11 company holidays & generous PTO
- Monthly lunches, game nights, holiday celebrations, and offsite events
- Generous parental leave and provide a $10,000 stipend for fertility, adoption, and other family-building benefits
- $2,000 annual learning stipend
- Constant training opportunities, company Lunch and Learns, and access to industry conferences
Company values
- AUDACITY - Challenge convention in pursuit of an expansive future
- RELENTLESSNESS - Focus on achieving intentionally meaningful results
- WONDER - Approach the world with awe and a deep desire to create
- HUMANITY - Expand possibilities for the human experience in this world – and beyond
Company HQ
Long Beach, CA
Articles
Leadership
Tim Ellis
(Co-Founder & CEO)They are part of the National Space Council Users Advisory Group for The White House. Held a variety of positions at BLUE ORIGIN before Relativity Space was accepted into the YC W16 batch.
Jordan Noone
(Co-Founder)Former CTO of the company. Co-founder and current Executive Chairman at KittyCAD, and Co-Founder & General Partner at Embedded Ventures.
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