Staff Electrical Engineer Verified today
About the Team
The Interplanetary Sciences Program expands access to scientific exploration across the solar system. It makes planetary research faster, more affordable, and more capable by rethinking how science missions are designed, built, and operated. The program enables scientists to send instruments to distant worlds without decades of development or prohibitive costs.
About the Role
As Staff Electrical Engineer, 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 design, build, and qualify high performance spacecraft electronics including 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 flight spacecraft constraints: power, thermal, EMI, mechanical, and reliability.
You will also work with the software team to bring up core software infrastructure on the spacecraft and ground side, iterating to ensure full system elements operate as intended in all environments.
This is a high responsibility, high autonomy role in a fast-paced, iterative environment. 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 from analysis to prototypes to flight-ready systems.
About You
- 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 Haves
- Direct architecture or EE design experience with non-volatile storage, mobile compute, 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 determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, annual learning and development stipend, and additional benefits.