Principal Electric Propulsion EngineerActive$162K
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
Own development of new or existing products or systems, acting as technical: lead to guide team through end-to-end development process
Conceptual and detailed performance calculations, systems modelling, analysis, and system designs
Requirements gathering, definition, and management
Systems engineering activities and leadership within the team
Test planning, setup, instrumentation, execution, and data analysis
Communicate with project stakeholders internal and external to the team
What they're looking for
- Technical risk-based decision making to the right/best solution when faced with an engineering challenge
- Project management, including: schedule building and maintenance, identifying top priority items, tasking of other engineers and technicians, and communication of status to leadership and other teams
- Mentor and coach people within the team on technical and professional development
- Define and maintain standard of excellence for their team through: documentation, training, coaching, and review of others’ work
