Senior Optical Beam Pointing Engineer — Mars Mission

Relativity Space, Inc.; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO & sick leave

Parental leave

Learning & development stipend

Equity and competitive compensation

Job summary

Relativity Space, Inc. in Long Beach, CA seeks a Senior Controls Engineer to lead optical beam pointing and control for ambitious interplanetary missions.

You will own the end-to-end control system, integrate optical sensors and gyros, and actively steer attitude and beam orientation to sustain precise optical links across vast distances. You’ll work across communications, GNC, flight software, and spacecraft systems teams to meet performance targets from design through prototyping, ground

Qualifications

• BS/MS/ PhD in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical, Control Systems, Physics or similar.
• 3+ years in control systems design and implementation.
• Experience with spacecraft guidance, navigation and control.
• Experience with sensor fusion and state estimation.

Responsibilities

• Own optical beam pointing and control algorithm development.
• Integrate sensor measurements and attitude estimates for precise pointing.
• Design fast steering mirror control to reject jitter.
• Develop sensor fusion and state estimation for pointing control.
• Define requirements and verification methods for performance metrics.
• Maintain models, sims, and analysis tools for performance validation.
• Collaborate with flight software, GNC, and spacecraft teams.
• Support prototyping, ground tests, and flight operations.

Skills

Control systems design

Classical & modern control

State-space methods

Nonlinear control

Sensor fusion

Kalman filtering

C++ programming

Python/Matlab scripting

Education

Bachelor/Master/PhD in a technical engineering field

Tools

MATLAB/Simulink

Flight software

Real-time control tools

Python

Job description

Relativity Space, Inc. in Long Beach, CA seeks a Senior Controls Engineer to lead optical beam pointing and control for ambitious interplanetary missions.

You will own the end-to-end control system, integrate optical sensors and gyros, and actively steer attitude and beam orientation to sustain precise optical links across vast distances. You’ll work across communications, GNC, flight software, and spacecraft systems teams to meet performance targets from design through prototyping, ground