About the Team:
The Systems Engineering team ensures that Terran R comes together as a cohesive, high-performing, and scalable system. Within the department, one team focuses on building tools and processes to manage requirements, track decisions, and identify and mitigate risk - enabling faster, more informed development across the program. Engineers work across domains to understand complex problems, identify solutions, and implement them - all with deep technical knowledge, not just documentation. The other team focuses on the vehicle itself, working across teams to ensure all subsystems of Terran R function together as intended, burning down technical risk, and driving informed decisions at every stage of the vehicle lifecycle. Engineers are empowered to lead high-impact efforts, from major test campaigns to console operations during launch, and are trusted to drive improvements across fluids, structures, avionics, and more. Regardless of which team you're on, you'll be part of a high-visibility, high-impact department at a pivotal moment in the program, where decisions made today on trades, architecture, and process will shape not just the first launch, but the long-term trajectory of Relativity.
About the Role:
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. In this role, you will:
• 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
About You:
To be considered for this role, you should have:
• A Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field • 2+ 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 but not required:
• Experience working in a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary, or start-up environment