Development EngineerActive

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine.

What you'll do

• Structures: propellant tanks, interstages, composite fairings

• Mechanisms: stage separation systems

• Fluids - pressurant systems, propellant management, ignition systems, reaction control systems

• Thermal - thermal protection systems, HVAC

• A degree in aerospace, mechanical, mechatronic, fluidic engineering or equivalent experience

• + years developing and testing high-performance mechanical systems, ideally structures and/or mechanisms

What they're looking for

• Hands-on fluency with test instrumentation load cells, accelerometers, strain: gauges, pressure transducers from setup through to interpreting static and dynamic data
• Strong analytical instincts: you can zoom in on a fastener and out to the full vehicle, and make the right call at both scales
• Excellent communication skills and a genuine team-first mindset
• A relentless bias toward done efficiently, effectively, and to the highest quality standard