Senior Electrical Engineer I Verified today
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 for NASA, the Space Development Agency, and the U.S. Space Force, delivering complete spacecraft, payloads, and subsystems including solar panels, flight software, star trackers, optical systems, separation systems, and radios.
The Role
Based in Long Beach, CA, you will develop and test avionics hardware for spacecraft programs. Working across engineering disciplines, you will own electrical hardware from requirements definition through design, prototyping, fabrication, testing, and production support. You will have frequent opportunities to test and operate your systems on-orbit.
What You'll 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 assessments
- 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 related engineering discipline
- 5+ years of electrical hardware design experience, including schematic capture and PCB layout
- Strong background in analog electronics design
- Proficiency performing circuit analyses in SPICE and Excel
- U.S. citizenship required due to program requirements
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's or PhD in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related 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 for 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: $124,000 to $170,500 USD. Total compensation (including equity): $144,275 to $206,175 USD. Equity grant value is designed around function, level, experience, and other factors; realized value depends on vesting and stock-price performance.
Benefits include company stock, 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 (where available), discounted gym memberships, complimentary snacks and beverages, and employee discounts.
Work Environment
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.