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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 Digital Hardware Engineer on the Avionics team, you will design, test, and analyze custom high-speed electronics for the Terran R launch vehicle. You will oversee hardware development 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 propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering to ensure seamless integration and operation. This is an opportunity to help shape Terran R's fundamental avionics architecture with high degree of ownership on components that will fly.
The role requires strong technical background in electronics design and sound project management skills to ensure hardware projects are both reliable and on-schedule. You will be deeply embedded across functions within Relativity, leveraging close partnership between avionics design, manufacturing, and test to enable rapid iteration and feedback loops.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in electronics designed for harsh environments and mission-critical applications such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics
- Technical expertise in high-speed serial interfaces (SPI, PCIe, Ethernet, etc.); memory interfaces; design for SoCs, microcontrollers, and microprocessors
- Experience with eCAD software such as Altium or equivalent
- Experience with hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and data analysis
- Experience with board-level design from concept to manufacturing
- Experience working with highly cross-functional teams (mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, etc.) to develop integrated electronics solutions
NICE TO HAVES:
- Familiarity with embedded software development and integration for avionics systems
- Experience with design for reliability and manufacturability of avionics hardware and systems
