Overview
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\u2019re not just executing tasks; you\u2019re solving problems that haven\u2019t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you\u2019re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you\u2019ll 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\u2019re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it\u2019s 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
The Additive Technology team operates at the frontier of research and development, where creativity meets capability. This is an R&D-driven environment where problems are open-ended and solutions are yours to define. You\u2019ll 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\u2019t be built any other way, it\u2019s high-impact work that sets the foundation for the future of additive manufacturing.
The Robotics Team at Relativity Space is responsible for building and refining the hardware that powers our autonomous systems. From advanced perception and robotics for manufacturing and additive processes to specialized robots that support development and deployment, our R&D Software engineers work in close collaboration with hardware and automation to develop cutting-edge technologies that push the boundaries of space exploration and industrial manufacturing. As a key member of the team, you\u2019ll bring your software expertise to revolutionize the way robotics cooperate and additively manufacture here on earth and off planet.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer , you\u2019ll be responsible for shaping the core software that interfaces with our multi-robot manufacturing system. You won\u2019t be maintaining legacy code—you\u2019ll be defining patterns, building reusable libraries, and building out and transforming prototypes into production-grade systems that control and coordinate real-world robotics hardware. You\u2019ll work across the stack, focusing on system orchestration, state machines, data handling, and integration with perception, motion, and thermal systems. Your work won\u2019t be abstract—you\u2019ll write the software that controls a system of robots merging perception, automation and additive manufacturing. Test writing and debugging are core to this role—not just checkboxes, but crafts. You know how to build fast feedback into your workflow and how to isolate, validate, and debug complex real-world behavior. This is not a front-end or dev tools role. It\u2019s about building clean, modular systems in C++ and Python that serve as the foundation for all STARR software.
Qualifications
- You write production-quality C, C++ and Python or Rust with a strong focus on modularity, clarity, and testability
- You\u2019ve worked on robotics, embedded systems, perception pipelines, or similar real-world platforms
- You know how to design and implement robust state machines and system-level orchestration
- You see around corners—your experience helps you anticipate integration risks and failure modes early
- You treat debugging and test building as first-class engineering problems
- You collaborate well across disciplines and communicate clearly with hardware, ML, and controls teams
- You\u2019re comfortable defining structure in early-stage systems and working independently toward high standards
Nice to have (optional)
- Familiarity with ROS2, or deep experience working with ROS nodes and message-passing systems
- Experience integrating real-time sensor data from vision, LiDAR, or thermal systems
- Background in perception pipelines, multi-robot coordination, or HIL environments
- Proficiency with build systems like CMake and infrastructure tools like Docker
- Experience with data pipelines: saving structured logs, database integration, or time-series metrics
- Exposure to ML/AI environments, especially wrapping or porting prototype code into production systems
- Background in additive manufacturing, robotics platforms, or industrial automation
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!
Hiring Range:
$157,000 - $200,000 USD
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.
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