Relativity Space
Senior Software Engineer, Industrial Control
Relativity Space, Long Beach, California, us, 90899
About the Team:
Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. With decades of experience scaling world‑class technology organizations like Google, CEO Eric Schmidt is guiding Relativity into its next phase: advancing Terran R toward launch and building the foundation for long‑term impact.
The Team: The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end‑user enterprise‑wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next‑generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond.
About the Role: On the Automation and Control Engineering (ACE) team, you will design, build, and operate the software that connects our automated factory, test facilities, and launch systems. ACE is responsible for the full stack—from the central platform down to the device‑level software running on controllers and equipment—and your work will directly shape how Terran R is built, tested, and flown.
Own features end‑to‑end across the software development lifecycle: from problem framing and architecture through implementation, test, deployment, and operation
Build and maintain the platform services (real‑time data pipelines, orchestration, UI, alerting), automation tooling and languages, and device‑level software used by teams across the company to control and monitor real hardware
Partner directly with hardware, test, manufacturing, and launch teams to design, instrument, and continuously improve automation and control systems that are safe, observable, and resilient in production environments
About You:
You have 7+ years of experience building high‑throughput, low‑latency data pipelines or streaming services in Go (or similar languages)
You are comfortable designing and operating services that ingest telemetry from many producers, apply backpressure when needed, and fan out data to multiple consumers in real time
You have experience building or integrating with real‑time data delivery mechanisms (e.g., WebSockets or streaming APIs) to support rich, live UIs and downstream services
You have worked on alerting or monitoring systems where low‑latency detection and reliable delivery of alerts is critical
Nice to haves but not required:
Experience with durable queuing or spool‑to‑disk patterns to protect against network interruptions or downstream outages
Familiarity with time‑series databases, metrics backends, or large‑scale telemetry storage systems
Experience designing schemas and protocols for telemetry at scale, including versioning and compatibility considerations
Experience benchmarking and load testing streaming services to understand and improve their performance envelope
Hiring Range: $165,000 — $211,000 USD
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 accommodations@relativityspace.com.
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The Team: The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end‑user enterprise‑wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next‑generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond.
About the Role: On the Automation and Control Engineering (ACE) team, you will design, build, and operate the software that connects our automated factory, test facilities, and launch systems. ACE is responsible for the full stack—from the central platform down to the device‑level software running on controllers and equipment—and your work will directly shape how Terran R is built, tested, and flown.
Own features end‑to‑end across the software development lifecycle: from problem framing and architecture through implementation, test, deployment, and operation
Build and maintain the platform services (real‑time data pipelines, orchestration, UI, alerting), automation tooling and languages, and device‑level software used by teams across the company to control and monitor real hardware
Partner directly with hardware, test, manufacturing, and launch teams to design, instrument, and continuously improve automation and control systems that are safe, observable, and resilient in production environments
About You:
You have 7+ years of experience building high‑throughput, low‑latency data pipelines or streaming services in Go (or similar languages)
You are comfortable designing and operating services that ingest telemetry from many producers, apply backpressure when needed, and fan out data to multiple consumers in real time
You have experience building or integrating with real‑time data delivery mechanisms (e.g., WebSockets or streaming APIs) to support rich, live UIs and downstream services
You have worked on alerting or monitoring systems where low‑latency detection and reliable delivery of alerts is critical
Nice to haves but not required:
Experience with durable queuing or spool‑to‑disk patterns to protect against network interruptions or downstream outages
Familiarity with time‑series databases, metrics backends, or large‑scale telemetry storage systems
Experience designing schemas and protocols for telemetry at scale, including versioning and compatibility considerations
Experience benchmarking and load testing streaming services to understand and improve their performance envelope
Hiring Range: $165,000 — $211,000 USD
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 accommodations@relativityspace.com.
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