About the Role
As an Engineering Manager on the Factory Platform team, you'll lead a squad building mission-critical tooling for design and simulation engineers who are optimizing the performance of Terran R. Your team will deliver the engineering analysis platform, design tools, and data pipelines that transform test stand telemetry and simulation results into actionable insights. You'll work directly with propulsion, structures, avionics, and test engineers to understand their workflows, remove bottlenecks, and build software that accelerates their ability to iterate, validate, and improve the vehicle with rigor and speed.
Hire, grow, and manage a team of 5-10 engineers (1:1s, performance reviews, career development)
Set team roadmap and priorities in partnership with design and test engineering stakeholders
Establish engineering standards: code quality, testing, deployment, incident response
Guide architectural decisions and keep your team unblocked
Build a high-performing culture of ownership and continuous improvement
Ship code as much as possible, time permitting
Technologies we use
Python, React, Typescript, Go
Iceberg, BigQuery, Duckdb, DBT, Postgres
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes (both cloud and on-prem), Terraform, Helm
About You
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) and willing to range across the stack
Comfortable driving architectural decisions and building buy-in across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders
Strong written and verbal communication - you can write a crisp design doc and also give useful, timely feedback to a struggling engineer
Nice to haves but not required
Bachelor's or higher in CS or related engineering field
3+ years engineering management experience with direct reports (5-10+ team size)
7+ years prior software engineering experience
Strong hiring, retention, and talent development track record
Full-stack technical foundation (frontend and backend)
Excellent communication: technical tradeoffs, strategy docs, feedback, influence
Nice to haves
Experience managing managers or multiple teams
Background in engineering analysis tools, scientific computing, or data-intensive applications
Familiarity with simulation, CAD/CAE, or test data systems
Aerospace, automotive, or hardware-driven industry experience
DevOps, MLOps, or data platform engineering background
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
$179,000—$269,000 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.
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