About 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. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.
About the Role:As a Lead Software Engineer on the Factory Platform team, you'll combine hands-on technical leadership with direct people management. You'll own the full software development lifecycle for your squad - from concept and trade study through implementation, deployment, and iteration - while also being accountable for the growth, performance, and hiring of the engineers on your team.
- Manage a team of software engineers: conduct 1:1s, write and deliver performance reviews, support career development, and drive hiring
- Set and uphold engineering standards for your team: code quality, testing, deployment practices, incident response, and on-call culture
- Lead architectural design and trade studies for new features and systems across planning, scheduling, purchasing, manufacturing operations, and test data tooling
- Maintain meaningful individual contribution - you are expected to stay technically sharp and ship code, not just review it
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders (manufacturing, operations, propulsion, test & launch) to translate domain requirements into software
- Mentor and grow engineers at all levels; identify gaps in the team and close them through coaching or hiring
Technologies we use:- Python, React, Typescript, Go
- Iceberg, BigQuery, Duckdb, DBT, Postgres
- AWS, GCP, Kubernetes (both cloud and on-prem), Terraform, Helm
About You:- Bachelor's or higher in CS or a related engineering field
- 5+ years of software engineering experience across multiple production systems
- Proven track record hiring, retaining, and developing engineers
- Expert in React and modern frontend tooling
- Fluent in at least one backend language (Go, Python) and willing to range across the stack
- Comfortable driving architectural decisions and building buy-in across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication - you can write a crisp design doc and also give useful, timely feedback to a struggling engineer
Nice to haves but not required: - 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead-manager role, with direct reports
- Experience designing and scaling service architectures for high-performance frontend operations
- Background in systems-level programming (synchronization, memory management)
- Experience with low-latency or safety-critical software
- History of shipping software across large, multi-platform codebases
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.
Hiring Range:
$157,000-$235,000 USD
