The board
- Pay
- $82,400–$125,325/yr
- Where
- Long Beach, CA
- Posted
- Sep 18
Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us.
SPACE SYSTEMS
At Rocket Lab, we’re not just launching rockets — we're building the future of space. Our Space Systems team builds everything from complete spacecraft, precision payloads to the components and subsystems that allow them to thrive in space, like solar panels, flight software, star trackers, optical systems, separation systems, radios, and more.
Our Space Systems team has enabled more than 1,700 missions, ranging from interplanetary exploration, in-space manufacturing to national security and defense initiatives.
What they want
- Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering; or other engineering degree
- Experience with electrical engineering or avionics
- US citizenship is required, due to program requirements
- Master’s or PhD in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering; or other engineering degree
- Experience in the aerospace/defense industry
- Experience supporting satellite development programs and satellite operations
- Thorough understanding of the space environment, orbital mechanics, and rigid body dynamics
- Experience with LT Spice, Altium, and/or Siemens software suite (i.e. Teamcenter)
- Experience with requirement management tools such as JAMA
- Experience with testing electrical subsystems and assemblies, thermal vacuum or random vibration, and hardware-in-the loop (HITL) testing
What you get
- Perform or support design tasks such as harness layout, connector and back shell selection, wire selection, and shielding for our spacecraft.
- Generate pinout tables for harness connectors at both ends of the assembly based on spacecraft interconnect diagrams
- Responsible for creating and maintaining BOMs for harnessing in our product lifecycle management (PLM) tool
- Assist in creating documentation for electrical system schematics and harness designs
- Develop test plans and procedures for avionics subsystems and components
- Perform analysis and evaluations to optimize spacecraft avionics circuits for performance, reliability, and manufacturability.
- Participate in internal design and customer facing review meetings as a representative of the avionics electrical engineering team.
- Work in multi-disciplinary teams to assist in design of electronic assemblies for our satellite and spacecraft programs