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Relativity Space · 2 days ago

Staff Software Engineer - Flight Engineer

Long Beach, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$194K/yr - $249K/yr

7+ years exp

Relativity Space is building rockets to meet the growing demand for launch capacity and advance science, exploration, and innovation. As a Staff Flight Software Engineer, you will lead the development of core flight software for the Terran R program, ensuring high performance and reliability while mentoring junior engineers.

3D TechnologyAerospaceArtificial Intelligence (AI)Manufacturing

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

Qualification

Embedded Software DevelopmentRustC++AlgorithmsData StructuresOperating System ConceptsSoftware Development ProcessesMentoringCollaborationProblem Solving

Required

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