Manager, Vehicle Software Infrastructure

Relativity Space•Long Beach, CA

7h•$179,000 - $246,500

About The Position

Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. Commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation. Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. You will be solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. 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. This 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. The Vehicle Software team develops the safety-critical software that runs on Terran R. The work spans a distributed, real-time control system operating under extreme conditions like Mach 5 atmospheric flight, with a deployment pace that allows you to see your code run on rocket engines daily. The team is building new system architecture from the ground up and just as importantly, testing, releasing, and deploying it. You don’t need an aerospace background: what matters is experience with high-reliability software for complex systems. This is a rare opportunity to shape the foundation of Terran R’s software stack while directly influencing performance, reliability, and flight success. This role involves working closely with engineering leadership across the company, ensuring the Vehicle Software Infrastructure tools and processes enable responsible engineers to move fast while also providing the right amount of engineering rigor to prevent downstream issues. The focus will be on creating and rolling out new processes and tools, while also streamlining and eliminating processes that are no longer effective or do not scale. You will manage a team of engineers who are helping maintain the existing infrastructure tools and designing new features as we step into Stage Testing. You will mentor/coach VSI engineers while providing a second set of technical eyes, ensuring processes are being leveraged to help burn down technical risk. You will look broadly at existing infrastructure and the interfaces between ground and vehicle software and recommend tools and process updates to increase robustness and tool performance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical field
Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams delivering successful Software Infrastructure on complex, cross-functional projects
Strong communication and organizational skills, capable of coordinating across engineering, Ground Software, integration, and executive teams
Experience driving operational improvements, asset utilization, and process standardization within technical laboratory environments

Nice To Haves

Prior experience scaling software infrastructure for rapidly growing aerospace programs
Prior Space industry experience

Responsibilities

Work closely with engineering leadership across the company ensuring the Vehicle Software Infrastructure tools and processes are enabling responsible engineers to move fast while also providing the right amount of engineering rigor to prevent downstream issues
Focus on creating and rolling out new processes and tools while also streamlining and eliminating processes that are no longer effective or do not scale
Manage a team of engineers who are helping maintain the existing infrastructure tools designing new features as we step into Stage Testing
Mentor/coach VSI engineers while providing a second set of technical eyes ensuring processes are being leveraged to help burn down technical risk
Look broadly at existing infrastructure and the interfaces between ground and vehicle software and recommend tools and process updates to increase robustness and tool performance