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Salary: USD 132,000 - 198,000 / 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.
In this role, you will own the design, routing, and integration of electrical wire harnessing within the Terran R Avionics System from conception through qualification and production, including connectors, cable, and supports. You'll collaborate across disciplines including structures, electrical hardware, propulsion, and software to optimize system-level avionics design through architecture trades and requirements definition. You'll utilize 3D modeling, 2D drafting, and electrical design packages to deliver detailed designs with considerations for production and test. You'll validate designs for flight through rapid prototyping and test campaigns, and support vehicle-level integration activities by defining avionics systems integration operations, checkouts, and test plans.
This is an opportunity to help shape Terran R's fundamental avionics architecture with high degree of ownership on components that will fly. You'll be deeply embedded across functions within Relativity, working closely with propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and operation. The company emphasizes autonomy, ownership, and impact at every level—you're solving problems that haven't been solved before and seeing your work come to life in record time.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in a full lifecycle design engineering role
- Experience with electrical harness design and mechanical routing in 3D CAD software
- Experience with the integration and test of complex, multi-disciplinary electrical systems
NICE TO HAVES:
- Proficiency with NX CAD and Teamcenter
- Experience with Zuken E3 electrical design software
- Experience with scripting and software development to support hardware bring-up activities (Python, LabView, C/C++)
- Experience developing electrical and mechanical test fixtures, tools, and production harnessing
- Experience working with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL or HITL) test systems
