Senior FPGA Engineer

Relativity Space•Long Beach, CA

2d•$148,000 - $222,000

About The Position

Relativity Space is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join their Avionics team. This role involves the full lifecycle of FPGA development for the Terran R launch vehicle, from initial concept and design through to flight maturity, integration, and vehicle operations. The engineer will be responsible for analyzing, designing, and testing custom FPGA firmware, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable and on-schedule hardware development. This is a unique opportunity to shape the fundamental avionics architecture of Terran R and take ownership of critical flight components.

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 Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Analyze, design, and test custom FPGA firmware on the Terran R launch vehicle.
Oversee FPGA development across multiple products through the entire product lifecycle from concept to flight maturity.
Manage initial design, board bring-up, design verification, qualification, initial flight production, integration, and vehicle operations for FPGAs.
Work with cross-functional partner teams across the company to make optimal decisions for the overall vehicle.
Ensure hardware projects are reliable and on-schedule to support Terran R's launch.