Relativity Space
Manager, Software Engineering
$179K–$269K
Long Beach, California, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Jun 3, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience; preferred: 3+ years engineering management experience and 7+ years prior software engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's or higher in CS or a related engineering field.
About the job
Leads a software engineering team building design, simulation, analysis, and data-pipeline tools that help engineers improve the Terran R vehicle.
What you'll do
- Hire, manage, and develop a team of 5–10 engineers; set its roadmap and priorities with engineering stakeholders.
- Guide architecture and establish standards for code quality, testing, deployment, and incident response.
- Deliver engineering analysis tools, design applications, and data pipelines; contribute code as time permits.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or higher in CS or a related engineering field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience across multiple production systems.
- Proven track record hiring, retaining, and developing engineers.
- Expert in React and modern frontend tooling; fluent in at least one backend language (Go, Python).
Nice to have
- 3+ years engineering management experience with direct reports; 7+ years prior software engineering experience.
- Experience with engineering analysis or data-intensive applications, simulation/CAD/CAE, aerospace or hardware industries, or DevOps/MLOps/data platforms.
Pay
$179,000 — $269,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, React, Typescript, Go, Iceberg, BigQuery, Duckdb, DBT
AI focus
The team builds next-generation AI to solve operational problems; this role focuses on engineering tools and data pipelines, with no specific AI duties stated.
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