Job Description
At Relativity Space we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle 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.
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. Whether you’re in propulsion manufacturing software avionics or a corporate function you’ll collaborate across teams shape decisions and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product the process and the culture but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
Relativity Space pioneered large-scale additive manufacturing with our Terran 1 rocket the largest 3D-printed object to fly. Now a distinct business unit within Relativity Horizon Manufacturing Technologies is advancing next-generation manufacturing for aerospace and beyond. The team operates at the frontier of manufacturing innovation where creativity meets capability. This is an environment where cutting-edge R&D is put into production industrializing advanced manufacturing capabilities to solve customer problems. You’ll work alongside welders robotics engineers data scientists and systems engineers at the intersection of hardware and software creating an end-to-end additive manufacturing platform that serves a wide variety of applications. From exploring new materials to unlocking faster print speeds to designing complex organic geometries that can’t be built any other way it’s high-impact work that sets the foundation for the future of advanced manufacturing.
About the Role:
We are seeking a Staff/Senior Software Engineer with broad technical skills and a hands-on mindset to develop and own the crucial backend software infrastructure that connects robotics software data platform machine learning and digital twin of our Stargate autonomous additive manufacturing platform. This role is ideal for a software engineer who thrives in cross-functional environments enjoys owning full projects from design to deployment and is comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving R&D setting.
You’ll contribute to the core software infrastructure that connects edge hardware ML inference systems real-time process monitoring tools and visualization platforms. You'll work closely with robotics data ML and infrastructure engineers to develop clean reliable and maintainable software that integrates tightly with hardware and real-world processes.
- As a member of Horizon's Data Platform team you'll develop user-facing applications APIs and Create/Read/Update/Delete services that expose data platform capabilities to end users
- Create backend services that integrate with data architectures and enable data consumption
- Develop frontend interfaces for data visualization analytics and platform management
- Deploy and maintain software in both edge and cloud environments
- Collaborate with robotics software engineers to integrate your software with the robotic operating system
- Contribute to internal tooling that improves developer productivity and system observability
About You:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience developing and shipping production-quality software with real-world operational constraints
- Proficient in whatever languages and tools you love most and willing to learn new ones
- Ability to independently identify scope design and execute software projects
- Understanding of databases pipelines and platforms and how to write software that interacts with them
- Experience designing in collaboration with non-software stakeholders
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience developing software for robotics or additive manufacturing applications
- Prior experience in a small company or startup where you owned software end-to-end
At Relativity Space we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience qualifications and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity a generous PTO and sick leave policy parental leave an annual learning and development stipend and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer please visit here.
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.
If you need a reasonable accommodation please contact us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience developing and shipping production-quality software with real-world operational constraints
- Ability to independently identify scope design and execute software projects
- Understanding of databases pipelines and platforms and how to write software that interacts with them
- Experience designing in collaboration with non-software stakeholders
- Proficient in multiple programming languages and willing to learn new tools
- Experience developing software for robotics or additive manufacturing applications
- Prior experience in a small company or startup owning software end-to-end
Relativity Space Compensation & Benefits Highlights
- Healthcare Strength—The company offers comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage company-funded HSA contributions mental-health resources and access to One Medical and an EAP. Wellness supports like a stipend and gym discounts reinforce the breadth of care.
- Parental & Family Support—Generous parental leave is paired with a $10000 family-building stipend for fertility and adoption with mentions of a Carrot Fertility partnership. This combination indicates meaningful support across different family needs.
- Leave & Time Off Breadth—The stated policy includes 15 PTO days per year with separate sick-time accruals 11 company holidays and 2 personal-choice holidays. This structure provides multiple avenues for planned and unplanned time away.
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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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