Senior Avionics Systems Integration & Test Engineer

At Relativity Space, we're building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that's just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven't been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you're in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you'll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we're writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it's early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

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's structure intentionally combines 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.
Now is a unique time to join: you'll get to help shape Terran R's fundamental avionics architecture and be given a
high degree of ownership on components that will fly.

About the Role:

• Oversee avionics system-level design verification and validation test activities: development of test matrices and test plans, creation of fixtures and tooling, and identification of pass/fail criteria
• Develop manuals, abort/redline/blueline criteria, data dashboards, and GUIs to ensure avionics health and performance during engine and vehicle integration, test, and launch activities
• Design, build, validate, and operate the electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) that provides power and communications to the Terran R launch vehicle throughout the product lifecycle (build, integration, test, launch, and recovery)
• Apply systems engineering methodologies to identify and design EGSE subsystems (DC power distribution, networking, safety systems, internal and external interfaces) and system-level test/simulation platforms
• Coordinate hardware readiness reviews of all avionics hardware and systems: build and integration readiness, component- and vehicle-level test status, and open issues and non-conformances
• Support test and launch activities on behalf of Avionics: coordination of integration and test activities between Engineering and Operations, anomaly investigations, post-test/launch data reviews, and on-console support

About You:

• Undergraduate or graduate degree (BS/MS/PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field
• 6+ years of experience in electrical systems design/analysis; system-level test; systems engineering; or equivalent
• Experience with complex system-level operations (vehicle-level test programs, launch operations, large-scale manufacturing, etc.)
• Familiarity with basic electrical test equipment (DMMs, oscilloscopes, power supplies, etc.)
• 25-50% travel to our Stennis and Cape Canaveral sites to support EGSE infrastructure bring-up and vehicle test/launch operations
• Demonstrated problem-solving and communication skills

Nice to haves but not required:

• Familiarity with programming languages for data acquisition, control, and analysis (Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW, or equivalent)
• Working knowledge of fundamentals of launch vehicles
• Experience with data analysis and visualization, especially with timeseries data and SQL databases
• Experience with production work order or MES systems

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

Hiring Range:

$159,000-$204,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.