Job Details

Long Beach, California

Overview

Relativity Space is building rockets to meet today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, unlocking new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation.

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's structure combines avionics design, manufacturing, and test to enable rapid iteration and feedback loops. Engineers are embedded with propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and operation. You'll help shape Terran R's fundamental avionics architecture and own components that will fly.

About the Role

• Manage the teams owning end-to-end systems engineering and verification activities for Avionics at the component, system, and vehicle level.
• Champion systems engineering best practices across the organization including requirements management, development and execution of verification test plans, tracking of component interfaces, and system configuration management.
• Lead the teams responsible for the development of test platforms including component functional test systems, hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testbeds, and ground support equipment (GSE).
• Drive cross-functional collaboration between Avionics and Vehicle Integration, Vehicle Test, and Launch Operations to ensure timely delivery and successful operation of vehicle avionics hardware.
• Travel to our test and launch sites to support integration and test operations, including on-console operations.

About You

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering or Computer Science
• 10+ years of experience in the development, integration, and test of complex electrical, mechanical, and software systems
• 7+ years of experience leading engineering teams
• Experience with environmental testing including thermal, vibration, shock, salt-fog, humidity, radiation, and EMC testing. Familiarity with standards such as SMC-S-016, RCC-319, RCC-324, DO-160, MIL-STD-810, or equivalents
• Deep understanding of electrical systems test and associated test equipment such as power supplies, DMMs, oscilloscopes, VNAs, electronics loads, etc.
• Experience with scripting and data analysis with programming languages such as Python or MATLAB

Nice to have

• Experience in spacecraft assembly, integration, and test

Compensation and benefits: Relativity Space offers a competitive compensation package including salary and equity, paid time off, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more.

Hiring Range: $263,000 - $337,000 USD

Equal Opportunity
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.