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# Senior Software Engineer (Factory Platform)

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Relativity Space posts a senior FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Long Beach, CA, at $154,000–$230,000 base, level with the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,849 postings with pay. Senior software engineer on the Factory Platform team, building the digital backbone for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026.

- [Relativity Space](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/relativity-space)

Posted Jul 16, 2026 by Relativity Space · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 6, 2026

**$154,000–$230,000** + equity Long Beach, CA On-site Full-time

Senior software engineer on the Factory Platform team, building the digital backbone for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$154K–$230K Level with the median

Midpoint $192K · median $190K

This job $154K to $230K. Senior FDE postings, 1,849 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds for teams inside the company

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: Internal teams

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **7+ years** building, shipping, and iterating on multiple applications and services

Background

- **Software engineering**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: Long Beach, CA

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Relativity Space

Posted by Relativity Space on Jul 16, 2026

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

### About the Team

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. With decades of experience scaling world-class technology organizations like Google, CEO Eric Schmidt is guiding Relativity into its next phase: advancing Terran R toward launch and building the foundation for long-term impact.

The Terrestrial Software team is building the foundation for an automated rocket factory and integrated launch platform. Their mission is to automate and streamline workflows across the entire lifecycle of Terran R, from raw material intake to launch operations and eventually manufacturing on Mars. Today, that means partnering directly with teams across design, materials, manufacturing, and test and launch to design, implement, and deploy end user enterprise-wide applications, industrial automation, data analytics infrastructure, and next-generation AI to solve real problems and accelerate progress. Long term, the team is laying the groundwork for a modular, scalable software platform that can power highly autonomous operations on Earth and beyond. This is a team for builders and thinkers who thrive on cross-functional impact and want to shape the digital backbone of our future in space.

### About the Role

- On the Factory Platform team, you will play a key role in the software development life cycle from initial concept, trade studies, design, implementation, and ongoing iteration.
- Develop applications used to plan and schedule purchasing and manufacturing operations, access and analyze engine and component test data, and several other tools used by engineers and operators across the company.
- Follow agile development practices and implement quality software that is continuously integrated and deployed.
- Solve complex problems with simple solutions. Work directly with users and stakeholder teams to figure out system requirements, implement the solutions, and iterate.

### Technologies we use

- Python, React, Typescript, Go
- Spark, Iceberg, Duckdb, Redshift, DBT, Postgres, Mongo
- AWS, Kubernetes (both cloud and on-prem), Terraform, Helm

### About You

- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a related Engineering field (Computer, Software, Electrical, Aerospace)
- 7+ years of experience building, shipping, and iterating on multiple apps and services in your career so far
- Experience designing in collaboration with non-software stakeholders
- Proficient in whatever languages and tools you love most, and willing to learn new ones
- Expert in front-end frameworks (React) and related tools
- Passionate about mentoring and growing the engineers around you

### Nice to haves but not required

- Experience designing and scaling service architectures that support high-performance front-end operations
- Experience with systems-level programming like synchronization primitives, memory management, etc
- Demonstrated experience developing low-latency, safety-critical front-ends
- Experience developing, debugging, and shipping software products on large code bases that span platforms and tools

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:

$154,000—$230,000 USD

**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.**

* **If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at accommodations@relativityspace.com.***

* **Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.***

[View posting at Relativity Space](https://boards.greenhouse.io/relativity/jobs/8633354002?gh_jid=8633354002)

## About Relativity Space

3D-printed, reusable medium-to-heavy-lift launch vehicle serving commercial satellite, government, and deep-space science customers at scale.

Late-stage private · 1000–2000 people

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