Relativity Space
Senior Avionics Hardware Engineer, RF
$148K–$222K
Long Beach, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Owns development, testing, and integration of GPS-based navigation avionics for the Terran R launch vehicle and provides technical guidance on vehicle RF architecture.
What you'll do
- Develop, test, and integrate GPS-based navigation system avionics; conduct architectural trades and create acceptance and qualification test plans.
- Support RF architecture for telemetry downlinks, command uplinks, and antenna deployment; review design analyses and provide technical guidance.
- Mentor hardware engineers on RF design fundamentals and collaborate across teams to integrate RF systems from design through operations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in electronics designed for harsh environments and mission-critical applications such as launch vehicles, spacecraft, aircraft, or robotics.
- Experience with hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and data analysis.
- Experience working with highly cross-functional teams and deep understanding of RF system fundamentals, including impedance matching, transmission line theory, link budget analysis, RF propagation effects, and antenna theory.
Nice to have
- In-depth knowledge of GNSS receiver systems, including PVT calculation, satellite tracking/acquisition, error sources, and RF front-end architecture.
- Understanding of RF communication systems, navigation sensor data fusion, or high-speed serial and memory interfaces; design for SoCs, microcontrollers, and microprocessors.
Pay
$148,000 — $222,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
GPS, GNSS, IMU, magnetometers, altimeters, LiDAR, SPI, PCIe
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