Senior Manager, Avionics Systems Integration & Test

Long Beach, California

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.

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 leverages close partnership between 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.

• Manage a team of engineers responsible for avionics system‑level integration, design validation, and test
• Oversee the development and operation of integrated system testbed, including HITL test systems and subsystem test platforms
• Lead efforts to validate avionics system and subsystem design, including power system validation, fault tolerance and isolation behavior, vehicle network behavior, software validation, etc.
• Support flight‑vehicle avionics hardware installation and checkouts
• Lead the development of integrated‑system GSE, including vehicle and engine GSE
• Develop vehicle‑level avionics CONOPs, go/no‑go criteria, system automation, and operator manuals
• Support on‑console test operations for the avionics system during stage‑level test and launch operations

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering or a related field
• 7+ years of experience with integrated systems test, such as flight test, hardware or software design validation, or development of hardware in the loop test platforms
• 7+ years of experience leading an engineering team
• Experience testing, validating, and troubleshooting complex integrated electrical and software systems
• Strong systems‑level engineering experience and perspective, balanced with experience and engagement in understanding lower level technical details
• Strong cross‑disciplinary communication skills and ability to prioritize competing tasks

• Experience with programming languages such as Python
• Electronics design or test experience
• Harness design or test experience

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!

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Hiring Range: $236,000 - $262,000 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.