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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.\nJoining 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.\nAbout the team:\nThe 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.\nAbout the role:\nContribute to the frontend platform for our operator UI - including the application shell, design system, and shared data layer that teams use to build features\nImplement frontend modules following the established architecture and contribution patterns that integrate into the unified application\nSupport the consolidation effort by migrating features and components from separate front ends into the unified operator platform\nWork with real-time hardware telemetry, implementing UI components that render live data efficiently while meeting performance requirements\nLearn from senior engineers, participate in code reviews, and apply best practices to improve code quality and your own frontend skills\nAbout you:\nExperience (typically 2+ years) building production web applications, with deep TypeScript and React expertise\nExperience contributing to shared frontend codebases, component libraries, or design systems used by multiple teams\nFoundational frontend performance skills: ability to use profiling tools, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement basic optimizations\nExperience working with state management patterns and real-time data updates in React applications (e.g., Redux, Context API, WebSocket integrations)\nAbility to collaborate effectively with senior engineers, receive technical mentorship, and contribute to architectural discussions.\nNice to haves but not required:\nReal-time data visualization / charting, or industrial control, SCADA, or hardware-in-the-loop experience\nFamiliarity with binary streaming protocols (WebSockets/protobuf) and offloading work to Web Workers\nExperience with a monorepo build system (Bazel) or embedding code editors (Monaco)\nAt 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.\nCompensation 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.\nHiring Range:\n$130,000—$196,000 USD\nWe 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.\nIf you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at .\n Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. 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