Relativity Space
Lead Radar Instrument Engineer
$175K–$263K
Long Beach, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in electrical hardware development; field testing, flight testing, or spaceflight experience with radio or radar transceivers is also stated, with no duration specified.
About the job
Leads the design, development, testing, spacecraft integration, calibration, and commissioning of a wideband UHF radar sounder and radiometer for a Mars orbiter mission.
What you'll do
- Own instrument-level radar electronics, signal processing, antenna design, performance budgets, and science-mode implementation.
- Lead prototype development, calibration planning, qualification and acceptance testing, spacecraft integration, and flight testing.
- Coordinate development across engineering disciplines and science partners, including spectrum licensing and on-orbit commissioning.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of electrical hardware development experience, such as software-defined radios, radar transceivers, or sophisticated digital processors.
- Ability to develop and manage radar system performance budgets.
- Experience analyzing and modeling radar returns and radar performance.
- Experience implementing radio or radar transceivers as software-defined radios; expertise in at least one of FPGA/GPU signal processing, mixed-signal/digital PCB design, RF circuit design, or antenna design and verification.
Nice to have
- Experience with microwave radiometry or radiometer instrument design; familiarity with planetary or terrestrial radars.
- Hands-on AMD/Xilinx RFSoC or Zynq UltraScale+ experience; spectrum licensing, polarimetric radar, or RF payload integration experience.
Pay
$175,000 — $263,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
UHF, FPGA, GPU, AMD/Xilinx RFSoC, Zynq UltraScale+
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