Senior Controls Engineer, Optical Beam Pointing is open at Relativity Space in Long Beach, California, United States. The posting gives a salary of $148K - $222K. Posted on Sep 24, 2026, and still on Relativity Space’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
As a Senior Controls Engineer within the Interplanetary Sciences Program, you will be the technical lead for optical beam pointing and control systems that enable high-precision optical communications for our 2028 Mars Orbiter mission. You will design, develop, and implement the control algorithms that measure the subsystem orientation using advanced sensor fusion and actively steer both spacecraft attitude and beam…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Relativity Space’s careers page.
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