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 you get
- Develop test plans and programs in support of space flight hardware and systems development
- Manage and conduct Acceptance, Qualification and Proto-Flight test programs
- Develop automated test hardware and test platforms in support of test programs
- Support the design and development of space flight hardware to increase the level of design for testability and manufacturability
- Support the analysis of COTS component test levels against mission environmental test requirements
- Contribute to the development of engineering and business processes, including engineering and test processes, as well as other business processes to support Rocket Lab growth and capability
- Contribute to the development of engineering best practice areas such as test, design for manufacture and engineering change
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or other technical discipline
- Experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering
- Understanding of electrical test equipment, test procedures, data acquisition systems, and instrumentation