Senior FPGA Engineer for Space Launch Avionics & DSP

Telemetry Today LLC; Long Beach, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity Space in Long Beach, CA seeks an FPGA engineer for the Avionics team to analyze, design, and test custom FPGA firmware across Terran R’s lifecycle. You’ll oversee FPGA work from concept to flight maturity and work with propulsion, GNC, and manufacturing to tighten integration and reliability.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in FPGA development with DSP/SDR for mission-critical systems and strong HDL and toolchain expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of FPGA development with a meaningful portion in DSP/SDR applications for mission-critical systems such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics
• Strong grounding in digital communications theory: modulation schemes, matched filtering, synchronization (timing/carrier recovery), equalization, and forward error correction
• Proficiency in DSP fundamentals: multirate signal processing, filter design, FFT-based processing, and fixed-point quantization analysis
• Technical expertise in FPGA development across the full lifecycle — RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, and bring-up/validation — with algorithms implemented in VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog
• Familiarity with a wide variety of FPGA toolchains and SoC platforms across industry leaders like AMD Xilinx, Intel, Microchip, etc.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, and test FPGA firmware across the Terran R program lifecycle, from concept to flight maturity and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering to ensure robust avionics integration.

Skills

FPGA development

DSP/SDR applications

Digital communications theory

DSP fundamentals

HDL languages (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVeri

HLS languages (SpinalHDL, Chisel, VVS,

High-speed data converters interfaces

Hardware bring-up & debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Tools

AMD Xilinx

Intel

Microchip

SpinalHDL

Chisel

Vitis

SystemC

Simulink

Job description

Relativity Space in Long Beach, CA seeks an FPGA engineer for the Avionics team to analyze, design, and test custom FPGA firmware across Terran R’s lifecycle. You’ll oversee FPGA work from concept to flight maturity and work with propulsion, GNC, and manufacturing to tighten integration and reliability.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in FPGA development with DSP/SDR for mission-critical systems and strong HDL and toolchain expertise.