Sr Software Systems Engineer

About the Team: 

At Relativity Space the success of our Terran R vehicle operations relies on software systems that are robust well-integrated and rigorously tested. The Software Systems Engineering team is a multidisciplinary function responsible for ensuring that the integrated software system that supports vehicle operations is functional scalable performant and ready for test and launch activities in alignment with the program schedule and risk posture. We bridge the gap between vehicle software ground systems and hardware teams to ensure reliable end-to-end system functionality. Our focus includes system-level requirements development safety engineering and analysis software-hardware integration risk management system-level debugging launch-readiness verification and operations support. We play a critical role in mission success by ensuring all software components work seamlessly across the full stack—from control centers to the vehicle in flight.

About the Role:

• Own and develop Software system-level requirements drive consensus and alignment among stakeholders and ensure requirements traceability to verification and validation activities
• Identify document escalate and manage software risks to the operational vehicle system; relentlessly drive strategic and thoughtful mitigations that balance complexity schedule and operational risk
  
• Own and drive Software system-level design verification and validation activities including development and execution of test matrices and test plans with traceability to requirements and identification of pass/fail criteria
  
• Define and build process around software configuration and change management and related tooling; provide critical feedback and input to tooling development teams; help educate users and software development teams
  
• Support mission-critical Software system certification and licensing deliverables that include failure mode analyses and verification artifacts
  
• Support test and launch activities on behalf of Software -- coordination of integration and test activities between Engineering and Operations anomaly investigations pre-test/launch readiness evaluations post-test/launch data reviews and on-console support

About You:

• Undergraduate or graduate degree (BS/MS/PhD) in Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or a related field
• 2+ years of experience in software systems design/analysis; system-level test; systems engineering; or equivalent
• Familiarity with basic software development and test/verification concepts such as version control configuration management debugging static analysis unit/integration/system testing etc.
• Familiarity with Python GitLab/Git CI/CD
• 25-50% travel to our Stennis and Cape Canaveral sites to support software bring up and vehicle test/launch operations
• Demonstrated problem-solving and communication skills

Nice to haves but not required:  

• Familiarity with C++ Rust
• Working knowledge of fundamentals of launch vehicles
• Experience with data analysis and visualization especially with time series data and SQL databases

What We Do

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket Terran R will deliver customer payloads to orbit meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science exploration and innovation pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Why Work With Us

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy ownership and impact exist at every level. Here you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before helping develop a rocket a factory and a business from the ground up.

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