Staff Electrical Engineer Verified today
About the Role
As Staff Electrical Engineer within the Interplanetary Sciences Program, you will own the next generation of deep space compute and storage capability by leveraging the latest terrestrial technologies and challenging the status quo of onboard compute and storage to other planets.
You will be responsible for designing, building, and qualifying high performance spacecraft electronics within the span of compute modules, network switches, storage nodes, and communications terminals. You will work closely with the science team to maximize capability by balancing CPU, GPU, storage capacity, and network bandwidth with the technical constraints of the flight spacecraft: power, thermal, EMI, mechanical, and reliability.
This role will work closely with the software team to bring up the core software infrastructure both on the spacecraft and on the ground side, and iterate with the software team to ensure the full system elements operate as intended in all environments.
This is a high responsibility, high autonomy role within a fast-paced, iterative environment where rapid prototyping, early testing, and continuous learning are key to success. You will lead hands-on development campaigns to evaluate key technologies, derisk interfaces, and validate performance before full system integration. You will work across internal and external teams to turn concepts into hardware, balancing agility and rigor as you move quickly from analysis to prototypes to flight-ready systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Physics, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years designing and delivering high performance digital electronics
- Proven experience leading design, bringup, and validation of sophisticated board level electronics
- Hands-on work with challenging thermal and electromechanical environments
- Excellent technical communication, problem-solving, and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills
Nice to Have
- Direct architecture or EE design experience with non-volatile storage, mobile compute, and/or server class computing
- Experience designing power supplies for digital electronics, such as multi rail converters with strict sequencing requirements
- Experience with compute and storage survivability in space and radiation environments
- Strong grasp of practical systems integration and risk management in a development program
Compensation
Hiring range: $175,000 to $263,000 USD. Compensation based on experience, qualifications, and job-related factors. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, generous PTO and sick leave, parental leave, and annual learning and development stipend.