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Salary: USD 125,300 - 187,850 / 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 works with partners including NASA, the Space Development Agency, and the U.S. Space Force.
The Senior Integration & Test Engineer II, based at Rocket Lab's Long Beach headquarters, is responsible for the development, test, and deployment of flight spacecraft systems, as well as the development, maintenance, and upgrading of test systems for that hardware. You will support the Space Systems organization with deliverables for internal leadership, board of directors, and investors.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead and own integration and test campaigns at various levels of spacecraft development
- Work collaboratively with team members to define systems requirements, verification, and validation plans
- Develop acceptance, qualification, and R&D test plans for spacecraft systems
- Develop, maintain, and operate environmental test systems (vibration, thermal vacuum, thermal, EMI, etc.)
- Develop and maintain mechanical and electrical ground support equipment and facilities
- Interface with ground test software and implement flight software configuration changes
- Lead investigations into anomalous vehicle behavior
- Interface with hardware-in-the-loop test systems
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, electronics, mechatronics, aerospace, or related engineering discipline
- 8+ years of experience in test engineering or other hands-on engineering roles
- Experience with environmental testing, such as thermal vacuum or random vibration testing
- Proficiency with C, C++, Python, or MATLAB; and Windows 10 and Microsoft Office products
- Experience writing technical documentation (procedures, reports, requirements)
- U.S. citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance
Desirable qualifications:
- Master's or PhD in electrical, electronics, mechatronics, aerospace, or related engineering
- 4+ years of professional aerospace test engineering experience
- Strong understanding of satellite subsystems (CDH, ADCS, EPS, COMM)
- Clean room and ESD-sensitive equipment experience
- Hands-on electrical test equipment experience (PSU, oscilloscope, DMM)
- Test systems design and implementation experience
- Sensors, signal conditioning, and data acquisition electronics knowledge
- Spacecraft harness design and best practices familiarity
- 3D CAD software experience (preferably NX)
- RF testing and hardware-in-the-loop testing experience
- Basic networking knowledge
- Linux systems experience
