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# Senior Hardware Engineer, Digital

- **Company:** Relativity Space, Inc.
- **Location:** El Segundo, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $148,000.0 - $222,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Board Bringup, Altium Designer, Data Analysis, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Digital Electronics, Embedded Software, Ethernet, Hardware Design, PCI Express, Serial Peripheral Interface, PIC Microcontroller
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1e0eedd09e37eb73

## About the Role

* Bachelors 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
 * Technical expertise in high speed serial interfaces (SPI, PCIe, Ethernet, etc.); memory interfaces; design for SoCs, microcontrollers, and microprocessors
 * Experience with eCAD software such as Altium or equivalent
 * Experience with hardware bring-up, validation, debugging, and data analysis
 * Experience with board-level design from concept to manufacturing
 * Experience working with highly cross-functional teams (mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, etc.) to develop integrated electronics solutions

Nice to haves but not required:

 * Familiarity with embedded software development and integration for avionics systems
 * Experience with design for reliability and manufacturability of avionics hardware and systems

## Description

As a digital hardware engineer on the Avionics team, you will design, test, and analyze custom high-speed electronics on the Terran R launch vehicle. You will oversee hardware development 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. A strong candidate for the role will have a deep technical background in electronics design and sound project management skills to ensure the hardware project is both reliable and on-schedule to support Terran R's launch!


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