Senior Flight Software Engineer
Relativity2 months ago
Base Salary
$154k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver core safety-critical flight software for Terran R.
- Meet system and performance requirements involving latency, jitter, and control frequency.
- Integrate guidance, navigation, and control algorithms for ascent, re-entry, descent, and landing.
- Integrate GPS, IMU, radar, and other vehicle sensor data and control valves, thrust vector controls, and landing grid fins.
- Develop telemetry systems that prioritize, filter, store, forward, encode, decode, and route data through ground stations and data centers.
- Support HITL, HOOTL, physics, and fluid simulation testing infrastructure.
- Define engineering standards, best practices, processes, and modern tooling while mentoring junior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a relevant engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of production development experience.
- Experience delivering production-level, high-reliability software.
- Expertise in Rust, C++, and/or other systems programming languages, algorithms, and data structures.
- Expertise in Linux concepts including memory management, CPU shielding, and scheduling.
- Expertise in networking concepts including TCP/IP and UDP.
- Experience with source control, bug tracking, and CI/CD processes.
- Preferred experience with synchronization primitives, memory management, inter-process communication, and message-passing protocols such as FlatBuffers or Protocol Buffers.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Generous paid time off and sick leave policy.
- Parental leave.
- Annual learning and development stipend.
About Relativity
Relativity builds legal data intelligence and e-discovery software used by law firms, corporations, and government agencies to manage litigation, investigations, and regulatory matters. Its flagship product, RelativityOne, is a cloud SaaS platform complemented by on-premises offerings and an extensible app ecosystem, sold via subscriptions and partners. Founded in 2001 (as kCura) and headquartered in Chicago, the company is privately held and received a major private-equity investment in 2021.