About the Team: 

The Avionics team is responsible for the full lifecycle of electronics, harnessing, enclosures and secondary structure, instrumentation, and GSE 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.

As an Avionics Intern you’ll join one of six teams within Avionics:

• Avionics Hardware: Support the development of custom flight electronics for our rockets
• Avionics Integration: Support the system-level design of our suite of avionics including harness design, integration operations definition, and system architecture development
• Avionics Mechanical: Support the development of electronics enclosures, mounting hardware, trays, vibration isolators, and thermal management solutions
• Avionics Test & Operations: Support the development of our functional test systems, HITL test systems, and vehicle test and operations
• Avionics Manufacturing and Test: Support the development of our manufacturing and test processes, tooling, and test system development
• Avionics Safety & Certification: Support the regulatory certification of our flight safety system

As the Avionics department is composed of many teams with many different areas of expertise, candidates from a wide variety of engineering backgrounds are encouraged to apply!

Past intern projects (just a few examples!)

• Tested flight quick disconnects  
• Implemented computer vision on the robots to implemented live depth data  
• Worked on adding automated sanding/grinding capabilities to our print cells  
• Worked on test stand infrastructure to help run tests more often and more efficiently 
• Oversaw designing the PCB for the High Voltage Battery Management System (HVBMS) 
• Helped set up an anomaly detection framework for stargate printers  
• Printed rocket engine parts!  

Skills/Competencies we’re looking for:

• Obtaining BS or MS degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, manufacturing engineering, computer science, or related field.
• Familiarity with at least one of the following areas:
  • Electronics design and/or PCBA design
  • Electrical harness design and routing
  • Mechanical design experience with CAD modeling software
  • Bring-up and integration of the electrical system of large-scale systems
  • Development of electrical and mechanical test fixtures and tools
  • Design for manufacturing, manufacturing process development, manufacturing execution systems
• We believe varied perspectives & backgrounds strengthen our team. Prior experience in aerospace is not required