Staff Embedded Software Engineer
Relativity SpaceLong Beach, California, United States
Posted March 9, 2026
181000 - 248500 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs, achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation.
Job Description
Join Relativity Space as a Staff Embedded Software Engineer to work on the storage platform software stack for a space-based data center, designing custom Linux kernel drivers, OpenZFS pool design, and automated fault recovery, shipping a platform that preserves up to a petabyte of mission data through years of radiation exposure.
Requirements
- 5+ years writing Linux kernel code
- Experience with storage systems: ZFS or other copy-on-write filesystems, RAID, NVMe internals, or high-throughput network storage (e.g., NFS)
- Depth in one or more: filesystem internals, block layer / device management, or storage protocol implementation
- Strong working knowledge of OS internals: virtual memory, interrupt context constraints, synchronization primitives, and I/O stack behavior
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Generous PTO and sick leave policy
- Parental leave
- Annual learning and development stipend