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. 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.
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 intentionally combines 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:
- Manage a team of engineers responsible for avionics system-level integration, design validation, and test
- Oversee the development and operation of integrated system testbed, including HITL test systems and subsystem test platforms
- Lead efforts to validate avionics system and subsystem design, including power system validation, fault tolerance and isolation behavior, vehicle network behavior, software validation, etc.
- Support flight-vehicle avionics hardware installation and checkouts
- Lead the development of integrated-system GSE, including vehicle and engine GSE
- Develop vehicle-level avionics CONOPs, go/no-go criteria, system automation, and operator manuals
- Support on-console test operations for the avionics system during stage-level test and launch operations
About You:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering or a related field
- 5+ years of experience with integrated systems test, such as flight test, hardware or software design validation, or development of hardware in the loop test platforms
- 5+ years of experience leading an engineering team
- Experience testing, validating, and troubleshooting complex integrated electrical and software systems
- Strong systems-level engineering experience and perspective, balanced with experience and engagement in understanding lower level technical detials
- Strong cross-disciplinary communication skills and ability to prioritize competing tasks
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience with programming languages such as Python
- Electronics design or test experience
- Harness design or test experience
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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Relativity Space Long Beach, California, USA Office
We have two sites in Long Beach, CA's Space Beach: "The Wormhole," a 1M sq. ft. factory, once Boeing C-17's home. Nearby, "The Portal" supports Aeon R engine production for our Terran R launch vehicle.
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