Senior FPGA Engineer Verified today
About the Team
The Avionics team designs, builds, tests, and operates the hardware that connects and controls every major electrical system on Terran R. You'll work closely with propulsion, guidance and control, fluids, and stage engineering teams to ensure seamless integration.
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, including 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 make the best possible decisions for the overall vehicle.
Requirements
- 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: 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 Have
- Strong experience in DSP concepts in RF applications such as forward error correction, channel estimation, front end theory, and modulation schemes
- Familiarity with 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.
Compensation
Hiring range: $148,000 to $222,000 USD. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, annual learning and development stipend, and additional benefits.