Principal Combustion Devices EngineerActive$162K

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

• Design, analyze, and perform trades studies to achieve programmatic targets.

• Define requirements, test and flight qualification plans.

• Work with the interface owners, like turbomachinery and engine systems teams,: to make a high-end product that could be iterated fast and seamlessly.

• Work with manufacturing and build engineers to design easily manufacturable, cost-effective, beautiful parts.

• Work with the test and launch teams to interpret data and provide solutions: to enable a high cadence – of tests, flights and re-flights.

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent

What they're looking for

• + years of combustion device design experience
• In-depth knowledge of combustion and fluid dynamics, heat transfer and structural mechanics.
• Fundamental understanding of design principals and manufacturing methods.
• Master’s or a PhD.