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Salary: USD 148,000 - 222,000 / annual
Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. The Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting growing demand for launch capacity. The Avionics team is responsible for the full lifecycle of Terran R's nervous system—designing, building, testing, installing, and operating the hardware that connects and controls every major electrical system on the vehicle and ground.
As a Senior FPGA Engineer on the digital electronics team, you will analyze, design, and test custom FPGA firmware on the Terran R launch vehicle. You will oversee development for FPGAs across multiple products through the entire product lifecycle from concept to flight maturity, including initial design, board bring-up, design verification, qualification, initial flight production, integration, and vehicle operations. You will work with cross-functional partner teams across the company—propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering—to help make the best possible decisions for the overall vehicle. A strong candidate will have a deep technical background in electronics design and sound project management skills to ensure the hardware project is both reliable and on-schedule to support Terran R's launch.
You'll get to help shape Terran R's fundamental avionics architecture and be given a high degree of ownership on components that will fly. The Avionics team leverages close partnership between avionics design, manufacturing, and test to enable rapid iteration and feedback loops. Engineers are deeply embedded into other functions within Relativity, working closely with multiple disciplines to ensure seamless integration and operation.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in FPGA development and high-speed digital systems in mission-critical applications such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics
- Technical expertise in FPGA development across the full lifecycle: RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, and bring-up/validation
- Familiarity with one or more Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) including VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog
- Experience with hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and data analysis
- Experience working with highly cross-functional teams (mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, etc.) to develop integrated electronics solutions
- Familiarity with a wide variety of FPGA toolchains and SoC platforms across industry leaders like AMD Xilinx, Intel, Microchip, etc.
NICE TO HAVES:
- Strong experience in DSP concepts in RF applications such as forward error correction, channel estimation, front end theory, and modulation schemes
- Familiarity with code generation or High Level Synthesis (HLS) languages including SpinalHDL, Chisel, Vitis, SystemC, or Simulink
- Familiarity with RISC-V development toolchain (e.g., linker scripts, compilers)
- Familiarity with rigorous software development processes including version and configuration control, change traceability, code coverage analysis, CI/CD build pipelines, etc.
