Staff Software Engineer, Flight Software at Relativity

Relativity

Long Beach, California·3d ago

LeadFull-timeRustC++CI/CDGo

Salary Range

$153,000 - $207,000 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

We are looking for a Staff Flight Software Engineer to join the Vehicle Software team at Relativity Space. This role involves developing safety-critical software for the Terran R rocket, focusing on core flight software products that directly impact the program. You will be a technical leader with a high level of autonomy, responsible for setting standards and best practices while mentoring junior engineers.

Key Responsibilities

→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.
→Focus on maximizing the team's velocity by defining processes, best practices, integrating modern tools and technologies, and mentoring junior engineers.

Requirements

✓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.