Senior FPGA Engineer Verified today

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.

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.

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 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 Have

• 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.

Compensation

Hiring range: $148,000 to $222,000 USD. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and additional benefits.