Senior Electrical Engineer, Spacecraft Compute Lead

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

Job summary

Relativity Space, Inc. is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer within the Interplanetary Sciences Program to own the next generation of deep space compute and storage capability.

You will design, build, and qualify high-performance spacecraft electronics, balancing CPU/GPU/storage with power, thermal, EMI, and reliability constraints for flight systems. You will collaborate with software and science teams to ensure core software infrastructure and hardware work together across spacecraft and

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and delivering high performance digital electronics.
• Proven experience leading design, bring-up, and validation of sophisticated board-level electronics.
• Hands-on work with challenging thermal and electromechanical environments.
• Excellent technical communication, problem-solving, and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the next generation of deep space compute and storage capability using current terrestrial technologies.
• Design, build, and qualify high performance spacecraft electronics across compute modules, switches, storage, and comms terminals.
• Lead hands-on development campaigns to evaluate technologies, derisk interfaces, and validate performance before flight-ready systems.

Skills

High-performance electronics

Electrical engineering

Design bring-up validation

Thermal management

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related technical field

Job description

Relativity Space, Inc. is seeking a Staff Electrical Engineer within the Interplanetary Sciences Program to own the next generation of deep space compute and storage capability.

You will design, build, and qualify high-performance spacecraft electronics, balancing CPU/GPU/storage with power, thermal, EMI, and reliability constraints for flight systems. You will collaborate with software and science teams to ensure core software infrastructure and hardware work together across spacecraft and