Senior Mechanical Engineer IINew
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 assigned mechanical and mechanism development efforts, including: definition of scope, requirements, schedules, technical risks, project milestones, and verification plans.
Serve as responsible engineer for complex components or subsystems and own: technical execution through design, procurement, build, test, qualification, and delivery.
Lead trade studies and technical decisions involving mechanical architecture,: packaging, interfaces, tolerance strategy, materials, fabrication approach, assembly flow, inspection planning, verification, and design risk.
Lead design, manufacturing, and test reviews with engineering, production,: quality, supply chain, and test stakeholders; document actions and drive closure.
Manage technical schedules, vendors, budgets, build priorities, and: risk-mitigation activities needed to meet program commitments.
Mentor less-experienced engineers and contribute to mechanical design: standards, best practices, design-for-manufacture improvements, and lessons learned.
What they're looking for
- Develop precision mechanisms, robotic systems, electromechanical assemblies,: tooling, fixtures, and ground support equipment for spaceflight and ground applications.
- Translate program, system, production, and test needs into practical: mechanical architectures, interfaces, packaging concepts, and verification approaches.
- Develop mechanical hardware through concept development, trade studies,: detailed design, analysis, drawing release, procurement, assembly, integration, environmental test, qualification, and delivery.
- Design space mechanisms and motion systems including actuators, gimbals, gear: trains, harmonic drives, bearings, motors, rotary sensors, springs, launch locks, release devices, and kinematic or pseudo-kinematic interfaces.
