R&D Engineering Intern Summer 2027

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.

As a R&D Engineering Intern based at Rocket Lab’s site in Albuquerque, New Mexico, you will have the opportunity to support the team with developing a process that can deposit a phase-change material that can favorably change the temperature of a solar array. The R&D team is responsible for array performance, array survivability, and array manufacturability and are qualifying and always improving the silicon array effort for constellations and other programs.