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About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems. The Space Systems team has enabled more than 1,700 missions for partners including NASA, the Space Development Agency, and the U.S. Space Force, building spacecraft and components for missions to the Moon and Mars.
The Role
Join the avionics design engineering team in Long Beach, CA. You will participate in the development and test of avionics hardware for spacecraft programs, working across all aspects of electrical hardware development: requirements definition, design, prototyping, fabrication, testing, and production. You will have frequent opportunities to test and operate your systems on orbit.
What You Will Do
- Develop PCBA requirements in collaboration with other engineering disciplines
- Perform schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer
- Conduct circuit analysis, including power, tolerance, and reliability studies
- Execute PCBA design verification testing and system integration testing
- Provide production manufacturing support as needed
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or other engineering discipline
- Strong background in analog electronics design
- Proficiency performing circuit analyses in SPICE and Excel
- U.S. citizenship (due to program requirements)
Desirable Qualifications
- Master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or other engineering discipline
- Proficiency with basic electronic lab equipment: power supplies, oscilloscopes, DMMs, signal generators, soldering irons
- Experience designing for space environments, including radiation impacts and mitigation
- Experience designing high-reliability aerospace applications
- Experience designing rigid-flex PCBs and electromechanical design familiarity
- Experience with FPGA design and embedded software development for ARM core processors
- Demonstrated success working in dynamic environments and managing competing priorities
Compensation and Benefits
Base salary: $82,400 to $103,000 USD. Total compensation (base and equity): $89,350 to $115,025 USD.
Benefits include company stock as part of your compensation package, an Employee Stock Purchase Program with 15% discount, medical plans (HMO, PPO, zero-cost HDHP with HSA company contribution), dental and vision coverage, paid vacation and sick time, 11 paid holidays, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, paid parental leave, disability and life insurance, 401(k) with company match, subsidized EV charging, onsite fitness centers, discounted gym memberships, complimentary snacks and beverages, 50% employee discount on merch, and other employee discounts.
Working Conditions
This position may require prolonged periods of sitting, standing, walking, and computer work, with occasional exposure to moderate levels of noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.
Export Control Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations (ITAR), you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum. Alternatively, you may be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State or Department of Commerce.