Senior FPGA Engineer

Senior Fpg Engineer

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. 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 picking up 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 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.

As an Fpg engineer on the digital electronics team, you will analyze, design, and test custom Fpg firmware on the Terran R launch vehicle. You will oversee development for Fpgs across multiple products 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!

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field

5+ years of experience in Fpg development and high-speed digital systems in mission-critical applications such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics

Technical expertise in Fpg development across the full-lifecycle from RTL design, verification, synthesis, timing analysis, and bring up/validation

Familiarity with one or more Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) including VHDL, Verilog, or System Verilog

Experience with hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and data analysis

Experience working with highly cross-functional teams (mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, etc.) to develop integrated electronics solutions

Familiarity with a wide variety of Fpg tool chains and SoC platforms across industry leaders like AMD Xilinx, Intel, Microchip, etc.

Strong experience in DSP concepts in RF applications such as forward error correction, channel estimation, front end theory, and modulation schemes

Familiarity with one or more code generation or High Level Synthesis (HLS) languages including SpinalHDL, Chisel, Vitis, SystemC, or Simulink

Familiarity with RISC-V development toolchain (e.g. linker scripts, compilers)

Familiarity with rigorous software development processes including version and configuration control, change traceability, code coverage analysis, CI/CD build pipelines, etc.

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!

Hiring Range: $148,000 - $222,000 USD

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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