Senior Flight Software Engineer Verified today
About the Team
The Vehicle Software team develops safety-critical software for Terran R. You will work on a distributed, real-time control system operating under extreme conditions like Mach 5 atmospheric flight. The team builds new system architecture from the ground up, tests, releases, and deploys it. Code runs on rocket engines with rapid deployment cycles.
About the Role
As a Senior Flight Software Engineer, you will be a technical leader within the team with high autonomy, responsible for:
- Architect and deliver core flight software with strong focus on system and performance requirements such as latency, jitter, and control frequency
- Work closely with GNC engineers to integrate complex algorithms for vehicle ascent, re-entry, descent and landing
- Integrate vehicle sensor data such as GPS, IMU, Radar and control vehicle equipment such as valves, thrust vector controls, and landing grid fins
- Develop telemetry system that prioritizes, filters, stores and forwards, and encodes/decodes telemetry to RF format
- Support development and integration of testing infrastructure such as HITL (Hardware-In-The-Loop) and HOOTL (Hardware-Out-Of-The-Loop) and physics and fluid sims
- Set standards and best practices for the team and mentor junior engineers
- Maximize team velocity by defining processes, integrating modern tools and technologies
About You
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or Aerospace Engineering
- 5 or more years of production development experience
- Experience delivering production-level and high reliability software
- Expert in Rust, C++, and/or other system languages, as well as algorithms and data structures
- Expert in Linux Operating System concepts such as memory management, CPU shielding, scheduling
- Expert in networking concepts such as TCP/IP, UDP
- Experience with software development processes including source control, bug tracking, and CI/CD
Nice to Have
- Experience with systems-level programming like synchronization primitives, memory management
- Experience with different inter-process communication methods
- Experience with message passing protocols such as flatbuffer or protobuf
Compensation
Hiring range: $154,000 to $230,000 USD. Compensation based on experience, qualifications, and job-related factors. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, and annual learning and development stipend.