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Manager – Test – Release & Deployment Engineering
| Company | Relativity Space |
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| Location | Long Beach, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $178000 – $198000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with 2+ years in technical leadership or management roles.
- Strong background in at least one of test automation, CI/CD, DevOps practices, or release engineering in a production software environment.
- Familiarity with systems integration, especially across complex software stacks involving embedded software, flight, or enterprise components.
Responsibilities
- Build a team from the ground up, pulling in industry standards, developer’s lessons learned, and new innovative ideas on how to make vehicle software better.
- Responsible for the testing, release, and deployment of all vehicle software including flight software, embedded software, and ground applications directly responsible for command and control of the rocket.
- Take ownership of, and continually improve, CI/CD pipelines for all vehicle software repos. Build commonality across pipelines to ensure consistent testing.
- Translate software requirements and test matrices into test procedures for HITL and HOOTL. Execute ‘run-for-records’ on HITL and HOOTL, perform and present data reviews on test results. Scale and continuously automate testing efforts from single engine, to stage, to vehicle and launch.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing software deployed to hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) or real-time testbeds is a strong plus.
- Proven ability to lead teams through ambiguity, set strategic direction, and deliver scalable solutions.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to work across disciplines, from software to manufacturing.
- Passion for building high-performing teams and coaching engineers in technical and career growth.
- Experience in aerospace, robotics, automotive, or similarly complex embedded systems.
- Knowledge of tools and frameworks like Anaconda, Gitlab, HITL/HIL orchestration, or other simulation and test environments.
- Experience in safety-critical software validation.
