Software Engineer Intern

Company Overview:

At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.

Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.

About the Team:

The Software team is responsible for developing a wide array of software across the entire company. This includes controlling the rocket from launch pad to orbit, providing real-time control systems for engine testing, structures testing, and launch facilities, and lastly (but certainly not least) creating our factory of the future with our proprietary 3D printing technology. This team is at the forefront of driving Relativity Space towards our mission of a multiplanetary future, from changing how we manufacture rockets to how we fly them.

About the Role:

You'll have experience bringing up new, custom embedded computer designs, from bootloaders to operating systems and device drivers. At Relativity, the software you develop will be a core piece of a software system that controls the entire vehicle operation and is mission critical. You love software and have a strong foundation of what it means to develop highly reliable software, following best practices around code quality and testing.

About You:

• Current Undergraduate or Graduate student earning degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Experience developing software drivers to interface with peripherals across a complex system
• Experience with verification and validation of safety and mission critical software
• Experience developing high reliability software
• Experience with software development processes including source control, bug tracking, and design documentation
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively
• Experience in C/C++

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience with modern systems architecture
• Experience working on multiple classes of drivers e.g., bus, block, wireless
• Experience with low-latency, high bandwidth, streaming hardware devices, e.g. video cameras, graphics cards, etc.
• Experience with ARM platforms
• Experience in Python.

We believe varied perspectives & backgrounds strengthen our team. Prior experience in aerospace is not required.

Past intern projects (just a few examples!)

• Tested flight quick disconnects
• Implemented computer vision on the robots to implemented live depth data
• Worked on adding automated sanding/grinding capabilities to our print cells
• Worked on test stand infrastructure to help run tests more often and more efficiently
• Oversaw designing the PCB for the High Voltage Battery Management System (HVBMS)
• Helped set up an anomaly detection framework for stargate printers
• Printed rocket engine parts!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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:

$36—$38 USD