Sr RF

Company Overview:  At Relativity Space, we have two audacious goals: to build the next great commercial launch company with Terran R and to become America's leading force in additive manufacturing innovation. Both contribute to our long-term vision of creating humanity’s industrial base on Mars, paving the way for interplanetary life to expand the possibilities of the human experience. This journey begins right here on Earth – where we design, build, and fly rockets to deliver customer payloads to orbit. Terran R, our medium-to-heavy lift reusable rocket, fulfills the growing demand for launch capacity, thanks to our iterative approach that accelerates design, testing, and development while minimizing costs. While our groundbreaking research and development in 3D printing pushes the boundaries of large-scale additive manufacturing.Your journey with us is more than just a job – it’s an opportunity to shape the future of aerospace technology, additive manufacturing, and the human experience alongside a community of passionate, creative individuals. Join us on this extraordinary journey, as we work together to transform our vision into reality.About the Team: The Avionics team is responsible for the full lifecycle of all electronics and supporting hardware central to operating Relativity's rockets. The team designs, builds, tests, integrates, and operates the hardware which controls the rocket in flight, downlinks critical telemetry, keeps the public safe, and deploys our customers' payloads to orbit Our hardware enables Relativity to reliably control our rockets while maintaining the flexibility to rapidly iterate our designs. As a member of this team, you will design innovative hardware solutions capable of surviving harsh launch and space environments. Your designs will support multiple vehicle systems such as sensors, propulsion, computing, actuation, energy management, and communications.About the Role: Drive the development of the flight and ground RF & Telemetry system for our launch vehicles through all phases of the development process including design, integration, test, and launchCreate link budgets for various vehicle RF systemsModel antenna radiation patterns and simulate vehicle-level antenna performanceDevelop the architecture for vehicle ground and vehicle RF systems, including S and L band systemsSelect COTS parts or design custom components such as antennas, RF passives, PAs and LNAs, transmitters/receivers, and GSEParticipate in the hardware and software integration and test of flight and ground telemetry hardware and softwareSupport regulatory and licensing activities with government and regulatory bodies such as the FCC, ITU, and USSFAssist in building and mentoring a team of multidisciplinary telemetry engineers including RF engineers, communication software engineers, and ground station engineersAbout You:  Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field7+ years of experience in RF and telemetry system engineeringExperience with antenna design and modeling tools such as Ansys HFSSExperience developing link budgetsExperience with the design and selection of RF passive components such as couplers and filtersExperience with the design and integration of RF systems consisting of radio transmitters and receivers, LNAs, PAs, couplers, filters, etc.Experience with RF test equipment such as spectrum analyzers, SDRs, and data recordersNice to haves but not required:  Experience mentoring engineers in engineering best-practices and domain-specific technical principlesComfortable communicating deeply technical topics to a wide variety of audiencesFamiliarity with telemetry standards standards such as IRIG-106Experience designing active RF electronics such as PAs, LNAs, and/or radio transceiversSoftware engineering fluency and experience with C++, Python, and/or MATLABExperience establishing a ground station network for launch vehicles or satellite systemsRelativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous vacation policy, an annual L&D stipend and more 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.The below-range represents Relativity Space’s current good-faith pay scale for this role.  Relativity Space reserves the right to modify or update this range at any time.Compensation is only one part of our entire total rewards package. To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here: Hiring Range:$139,000—$177,000 USD