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Relativity Space · 1 day ago

Senior Software Engineer, Flight Software

Long Beach, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$165K/yr - $211K/yr

5+ years exp

Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. As a Senior Flight Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in the full life cycle of Flight Software, collaborating with engineers to integrate complex algorithms and develop core flight software that meets stringent performance requirements.

3D TechnologyAerospaceArtificial Intelligence (AI)Manufacturing

Responsibilities

Write concise documentation such as Concept of Operations, Interface Control Documents, and Software Design Documents

Architect and deliver core flight software with a strong focus on meeting system and performance requirements such as latency, allowed jitter, and control frequency

Develop telemetry system that prioritizes, filters, stores and forwards, and encodes/decodes telemetry to RF format, and routes that data through ground stations and to data centers

Support the 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

Build automated unit, integration and system level tests in CI/CD

Focus on maximizing the team's velocity by defining processes, best practices, integrating modern tools and technologies, and mentoring junior engineers

Qualification

RustC++Real-time embedded softwareLinux OS conceptsNetworking conceptsCI/CDSoftware development processesAlgorithmsData structuresDocumentation writingMentoringCollaboration

Required

An undergraduate or graduate degree in a relevant engineering discipline (Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering) with 5+ years experience of production development experience

Deep professional experience and technical expertise delivering production-level and real time embedded 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, etc

Expert in networking concepts such as TCP/IP, UDP

Experience with software development processes including: source control, bug tracking, and CI/CD

Preferred

Experience with developing software to a safety standard and achieving formal certification with a governing body (e.g. NASA, FAA, FDA, etc.)

Familiarity with performing Hazard Analysis, FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and Root Cause Analysis, and familiarity with FDIR (Fault Detection Isolation, Recovery) concepts

Experience with developing fault and failure tolerant system and knowledge of voting and internal state synchronization

Experience with systems-level programming like synchronization primitives, memory management, etc

Experience with different inter-process communication methods

Experience with message passing protocol such as flatbuffer or protobuf