About the Team: The Interplanetary Sciences Program was established to expand access to scientific exploration across our solar system. Its mission is to make planetary research faster, more affordable, and more capable than ever before by rethinking how science missions are designed, built, and operated. The program aims to enable scientists to send instruments to distant worlds without decades of development or prohibitive costs. By creating a sustainable model for interplanetary exploration, we are transforming space science from an occasional event into a continuous process of discovery that accelerates knowledge, broadens participation, and inspires the next generation of explorers.
About the Role:As the 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 be working closely with the science team to maximize capability by balancing the capability (CPU, GPU, storage capacity, network bandwidth) with the technical constraints of the flight spacecraft (power, thermal, EMI, mechanical, reliability, etc...). This role will also work closely in conjunction with the software team to bring up the core software infrastructure both on the spacecraft and on the ground side, and iterating with the software team to ensure the full system elements operate as intended in all environments.
This role will be a high responsibility, high autonomy, and high accountability role within a fast-paced, iterative environment, where rapid prototyping, early testing, and continuous learning are key to success. You'll lead hands-on development campaigns to evaluate key technologies, derisk interfaces, and validate performance before full system integration. You'll also 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.
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 but not required: - Direct architecture or EE design experience with non-volatile storage, mobile compute, and/or server class computing is a plus
- 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 is a plus
- Strong grasp of practical systems integration and risk management in a development program
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:
$175,000-$263,000 USD
