Flight Analysis Intern - SoftwareActive
The opportunity
Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering responsive launch services, complete spacecraft design and manufacturing, payloads, satellite components, and more – all with the goal of opening access to space. The rockets and satellites we build and launch enable some of…
What you'll do
Develop flight analysis methods and assumptions and ensure that they are: up-to-date with regulatory requirements
Development and maintenance of in-house flight analysis tools including but: not limited to launch vehicle trajectory and performance evaluation, debris modelling, re-entry analysis, failure effects, reliability and mission risk
Development and execution of 6 DoF and 3 DoF simulations
Development of statistical models to quantify failure probabilities
Handling, processing and analysis of large data sets
Programming in languages such as Python and C++
What they're looking for
- Parallel computing and software design for efficiency
- Maintenance and improvement of in-house tools
- General modelling and simulation
- Submit launch operational deliverables on time to the compliance team as well as relevant regulators
