Senior Combustion Devices Engineer II / Principal Combustion Devices EngineerActive$270K

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

  • 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.
  • Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent