Sr Vehicle Automation Engineer

Relativity Space • Long Beach, CA

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About The Position

This role is responsible for the full lifecycle of automation development – starting with CONOPs definition, then designing and implementing state-based automation, and finally verifying the system behavior in test environments. The automation you contribute to will control vehicle behavior during critical operations, including hotfire and launch. The role requires both hardware and software skills to do this reliably and efficiently.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related field
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Experience applying engineering fundamentals across a wide range of functional disciplines
• Working literacy with one or more control-oriented software language(s) (Python, Rust, C++, etc)

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary, or start-up environment

Responsibilities

• Develop vehicle-level CONOPs for test, hotfire, and launch operations
• Collaborate with Responsible Engineers to define automation requirements across fluids, avionics, propulsion and mechanism subsystems
• Define and maintain the architecture for vehicle automation software used in ground and flight operations
• Author and review code
• Validate automation using physics-backed models integrated into CI/CD workflows
• Perform unit-, integration-, and system-level verification
• Provide console support and perform pre- and post-operation data

Benefits

• competitive salary and equity
• generous PTO and sick leave policy
• parental leave
• an annual learning and development stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior