Relativity Space is building rockets to meet the growing demand for launch capacity and to enable future advancements in science, exploration, and innovation. The company is seeking to develop an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform to streamline workflows from raw material intake to launch operations, with the long-term goal of enabling autonomous operations on Mars.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in systems programming (C++ or Rust) and/or programming language implementation, with strong fundamentals in compilers, interpreters, or virtual machines
- Experience building or extending domain-specific languages or execution engines for hardware automation, scientific computation, trading, or other real-time domains where correctness, latency, and memory footprint matter
- Comfortable designing fast, low-allocation code paths and reasoning about performance in terms of cache behavior, allocation patterns, and data layout
- Excitement to work on a proprietary language used for live hardware control and calculations
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
- Design, build, and operate the software that connects the automated factory, test facilities, and launch systems
- Work on a proprietary language used for live hardware control and calculations, and collaborate closely with users to evolve the language and runtime in a safety-critical context
Other
- Academic or industry background in compilers, static analysis, formal methods, or programming languages research
- Experience implementing type systems, bytecode interpreters, JITs, or code generation pipelines optimized for low latency and small memory footprints
- Experience building scriptable automation frameworks or configuration/DSL layers on top of C++/Rust systems used to orchestrate hardware, tests, or complex workflows
- Familiarity with real-time scheduling, concurrency models, and fault-tolerance techniques used when a language or runtime is responsible for controlling physical equipment
- Equal opportunity employer; does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
