Senior Hardware Engineer, Digital

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Generous PTO and sick leave policy

Parental leave

Annual learning and development stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking a Digital Hardware Engineer for the Avionics team to design and analyze high-speed electronics for the Terran R launch vehicle. You will oversee the hardware development lifecycle and work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable solutions.

The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 5+ years of experience in mission-critical environments. Join us to help advance aerospace technology!

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in mission-critical electronics design.
• Experience with board-level design from concept to manufacturing.
• Experience with hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design, test, and analyze high-speed electronics for the Terran R launch vehicle.
• Oversee hardware development from concept to flight maturity.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for integrated electronics solutions.

Skills

Electronics design for harsh environments

High-speed serial interfaces (SPI, PCIe, Ethernet)

Project management skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

eCAD software (e.g. Altium)

Job description

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you’re not just executing tasks; you’re solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together.

About The Team

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. The 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 propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and operation. Now is a unique time to join: 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.

About The Role

As a digital hardware engineer on the Avionics team, you will design, test, and analyze custom high-speed electronics on the Terran R launch vehicle. You will oversee hardware development through the entire product lifecycle from concept to flight maturity to include 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 to help the team make the best possible decisions for the overall vehicle. A strong candidate for the role 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.

About You

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a 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 But Not Required

• Familiarity with embedded software development and integration for avionics systems
• Experience with design for reliability and manufacturability of avionics hardware and systems

Hiring Range

$148,000—$222,000 USD

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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