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About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems. Our Space Systems team has enabled more than 1,700 missions, from interplanetary exploration to national security, including work with NASA, the Space Development Agency, and the U.S. Space Force.
The Role
As Harness Design Engineer II in Long Beach, CA, you will design electrical harnesses for our spacecraft and assist in avionics engineering activities. You will organize interfaces, select components, specify split locations and lengths, and generate design documentation for our spacecraft engineering team.
Harness Design Responsibilities
- Perform or support harness layout, connector and back shell selection, wire selection, and shielding design for spacecraft
- Generate pinout tables for harness connectors based on spacecraft interconnect diagrams
- Create and maintain BOMs for harnessing in our PLM tool
- Assist in creating documentation for electrical system schematics and harness designs
Avionics Responsibilities
- Develop test plans and procedures for avionics subsystems and components
- Perform analysis and evaluations to optimize spacecraft avionics circuits for performance, reliability, and manufacturability
- Participate in internal design and customer-facing review meetings as a representative of the avionics electrical engineering team
- Work in multi-disciplinary teams to assist in design of electronic assemblies for satellite and spacecraft programs
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, or other engineering discipline
- 2+ years of electrical engineering or avionics experience
- U.S. citizenship required due to program requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's or PhD in aerospace, mechanical, electrical engineering, or other engineering discipline
- Experience in the aerospace/defense industry
- Experience supporting satellite development programs and satellite operations
- Understanding of space environment, orbital mechanics, and rigid body dynamics
- Experience with LT Spice, Altium, and/or Siemens software suite (Teamcenter)
- Experience with requirement management tools such as JAMA
- Experience testing electrical subsystems and assemblies, thermal vacuum or random vibration testing, and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing
- Proficiency in electronics principles and electrical systems, including power electronics, communication systems (RS-422, SPI, Ethernet, CAN bus), signal integrity, and grounding
- Proficiency with instrumentation, interfaces, and sensors, including power supplies, oscilloscopes, serial devices, accelerometers, thermocouples, RTDs, and 4-20mA sensors
- Ability to work in dynamic environment with competing priorities
Compensation
- Base Salary: $100,800 to $126,000 USD
- Total Compensation (base and equity): $110,875 to $143,625 USD
- Equity grant value is designed around function, level, experience, and other factors; realized value depends on vesting and stock performance
Benefits
- Company stock as part of total compensation package
- Employee Stock Purchase Program with 15% discount on company stock
- Medical plans (HMO, PPO, and zero cost HDHP option with significant 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) retirement plan with company match
- Subsidized EV charging
- Onsite fitness centers and discounted gym memberships
- Complimentary snacks and beverages
- 50% employee discount on merchandise store and various other employee discounts
Work Environment
This position may require prolonged periods of sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional exposure to moderate levels of noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.