Senior FPGA Engineer

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 an FPGA engineer on the digital electronics team you will analyze design and test custom FPGA firmware on the Terran R launch vehicle. You will oversee development for FPGAs 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!

About You:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in FPGA development and high-speed digital systems in mission-critical applications such as launch vehicles spacecraft aircraft or robotics
• Technical expertise in FPGA 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 SystemVerilog
• 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 FPGA toolchains and SoC platforms across industry leaders like AMD Xilinx Intel Microchip etc.

Nice to haves but not required:  

• 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.

What We Do

Relativity Space is on a mission to better connect humanity to space and the universe beyond our planet. Our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket Terran R 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.

Why Work With Us

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.

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