Senior Power Electronics Engineer

Overview

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. Relativity is a place where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. You’ll solve 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 and see your work come to life in record time.

Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and gaining momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

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 intentionally combines avionics design, manufacturing, and test to enable rapid iteration and feedback loops. Engineers are deeply embedded with propulsion, GNC, fluids, and stage engineering to ensure seamless integration and operation.

You’ll help shape Terran R's fundamental avionics architecture and have a high degree of ownership on components that will fly.

As a Power Electronics engineer within the Avionics team, you will lead high power devices through the product lifecycle including 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 vehicle. A strong candidate will have a deep technical background in power electronics design, specializing in battery systems, power distribution, or related devices such as converters, inverters/rectifiers, or motor controllers.

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in power electronics design for harsh environments and mission-critical applications such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics
• 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

• Familiarity with embedded software development and integration for avionics systems
• Experience with design for reliability and manufacturability of avionics hardware and systems
• Technical expertise in several power electronics areas, such as motor drives and control, DC-DC converters, load switches, high voltage DC electronics

Relativity Space is committed to transparent and fair compensation. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors. Compensation is one part of our total rewards package, which includes a competitive salary and equity, generous PTO and sick leave, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more. To see benefits and perks, please visit the company website.

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.