GNC Engineer IActive$102K
The opportunity
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
GNC contact to Business Development for proposals and mission definition
Launch and mission operational concept development
Orbital and suborbital trajectory design and analysis
Work with external stakeholders and customers for mission-specific requirements engineering
Document proposed GNC solutions and participate in design reviews with customers
Support hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing to verify trajectories, GNC, and flight code performance
What they're looking for
- Conduct Monte Carlo simulation analyses to define and verify launch and mission operations
- Develop and support release of flight code for pre-launch ground testing, launch, and mission operations
- Develop tools and processes for automating common GNC modelling and analysis tasks
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering