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
Relativity’s Integrated Performance teams ensure that our products work across all systems and disciplines, from trajectory design to aerodynamics to reliability analysis and beyond. Our groups size the Terran R rocket, design its missions for customer success, reliability, and reusability, and ensure that every system on the rocket and ground is engineered correctly for the demanding environments of launch and entry. Recently, we completed the preliminary design and analysis of Terran R including Relativity’s first-ever work on launch vehicle reusability, spanning advanced trajectory simulations, wind tunnel testing, and structures analysis, among many other projects.
About The Role
You will be responsible for:
Developing software needed to set up a simulation environment
Simulation sequences/scheduler and logging tools
Developing visualization tools
Developing Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and automation
Developing simulation interfaces with hardware testing
Running analysis that captures complex software and physics interactions
About You
You will be working on a wide range of projects developing end-end solutions with a high level of independence and ownership.
An undergraduate or graduate degree (BS/MS/PhD) in engineering or related field
0-2 years of software engineering experience
High proficiency with compiled languages (e.g C , Rust) & scripted languages (Python)
Experience implementing software development practices and workflows such as Docker, continuous integration (CI), & continuous deployment (CD) workflows
Experience interfacing software with hardware in the loop testing (HITL)
Nice To Haves But Not Required
Experience using and developing numerical solvers (Numerical optimization routines, ODE/PDE solvers, etc)
Experience interfacing with cross-disciplinary software and hardware teams to drive software requirements
Experience developing high-performance physics or math-simulating environments
High-level knowledge of launch vehicle-related software systems
Prior work in a startup or agile development environment
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.
The below-range represents Relativity Space’s current good-faith pay scale for this role. Relativity Space reserves the right to modify or update this range at any time.
Compensation is only one part of our entire total rewards package. To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here: https://px.sequoia.com/relativityspace
Hiring Range
$115,000—$146,000 USD
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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