Senior Mechanical Development & Test Engineer IINew$132K

Rocket Lab
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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

  • Lead qualification test campaigns.

  • Lead high-volume acceptance test infrastructure development and insertion into the production floor.

  • Advise on in-house test capabilities, limits, and future needs.

  • Manage test projects end-to-end, to include resourcing, scheduling, and budgeting as needed.

  • Hands-on work with test infrastructure implementation and validation.

  • Work closely with design and other test engineers to iterate through design: concepts and determine test requirements.

What they're looking for

  • Design complex Mechanical Ground Support Equipment (MGSE) to support test implementation.
  • Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline.
  • + years of engineering experience in the aerospace industry.
  • Experience using NX Nastran, NX CAD, and Teamcenter packages.