Senior Software Engineer, Industrial Automation

Relativity Space • Long Beach, CA

31d

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees