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Salary: CAD 80,000 - 100,000 / annual
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for missions ranging from interplanetary exploration to national security and defense. The Space Systems team has enabled over 1,700 missions and builds everything from complete spacecraft and precision payloads to subsystems like solar panels, flight software, star trackers, optical systems, separation systems, and radios.
Based at Rocket Lab's Sinclair Interplanetary site in Toronto, Ontario, the Optical Engineer I reports to the optical lead and supports the development and maintenance of star tracker products. This role involves hands-on engineering work across the full product lifecycle.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, analysis, and testing to develop new star tracker products and maintain existing ones
- Develop, integrate, and commission test setups for star tracker production and R&D
- Collect and analyze data to quantify part-level and unit-level performance
- Support the quality team with root cause analysis and non-conformance disposition
- Assist the production team with assembly, integration, and testing of star tracker products
- Support business development in responding to customer inquiries
The role may involve prolonged periods of sitting, standing, walking, and computer work, with occasional exposure to moderate levels of noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.
QUALIFICATIONS (Required):
- Bachelor's degree in science or engineering
- Experience in mechanical engineering or related field
- Experience designing, developing, or testing optical systems
QUALIFICATIONS (Nice to Have):
- 2+ years of experience in mechanical engineering or related field
- 2+ years of experience designing, developing, or testing optical systems
- Master's degree in physics or aerospace engineering
- Experience with optical design and Zemax OpticStudio
- Familiarity with optomechanical design and sourcing/selection of optomechanical components
- Familiarity with spacecraft system design and the space environment
- Familiarity with lens manufacture and assembly
- Familiarity with stray light analysis and stray light mitigation techniques
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional problem-solving skills
- Experience with data analysis, visualization, and interpretation using Python or Matlab
- Experience with source control technologies like GIT or SVN
- Experience with embedded microcontroller development in C
