RF Phased Array Engineer II Verified today
About Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for missions ranging from interplanetary exploration to national security. Our Space Systems team has enabled more than 1,700 missions and built spacecraft and components for NASA, the Space Development Agency, and the U.S. Space Force.
The Role
Based in Long Beach, CA, you will be responsible for developing new RF products and systems, including Rocket Lab's phased arrays, and assessing commercial off-the-shelf components. You will model and simulate antenna performance for current programs and proposals in a fast-paced environment.
What You'll Do
Product Development
- Support end-to-end product efforts including architecture design, prototyping, integration, test, and flight development
- Model and simulate array performance
- Work alongside interdisciplinary teams of RF, digital, power, mechanical, thermal, and structural engineers
- Support transition from new product introduction to production
- Interface with vendors and customers
- Develop test plans and procedures for active antennas, including EIRP and G/T testing
- Design and develop GSE and production automation
- Support product documentation including ICDs and User Manuals
Customer and Program Support
- Support proposals and requirements specifications to assess compliance
- Implement development activities for new requirements
- Support engineering reviews including PDRs, CDRs, and TRRs
- Provide technical support to internal and external customers
- Maintain awareness of product development and production schedules
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, RF communications, or equivalent qualification
- 2+ years of relevant RF experience
- Fundamental RF knowledge including link budget analysis and linearity
- Solid theoretical and practical understanding of RF communications and navigation systems and components
- Basic knowledge of antenna and array modeling
- Ability to obtain TS/SCI security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Extensive space-grade system design experience
- Experience in worst-case, reliability, FMECA, thermal, and derating analyses
- Complex engineering program support and documentation development
- RF communications system design, integration, and testing for launch vehicles or satellites
- Mentoring and incident management experience
- Project management experience
Compensation and Benefits
Base pay range for California: $108,000 to $162,000 USD. Compensation includes company stock as part of total package. Benefits include Employee Stock Purchase Program with 15% discount, medical plans (HMO, PPO, zero-cost HDHP), dental and vision coverage, paid vacation and sick time, 11 paid holidays, paid parental leave, 401(k) with company match, subsidized EV charging, onsite fitness centers, and employee discounts.