Senior RF Engineer II - RadarActive$142K
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 technical development of space-based radar systems including: architecture design, prototyping, integration, test, and flight development
Define and maintain radar performance requirements and link budget: specifications accounting for orbital parameters
Conduct radar payload design trades including antenna selection, waveform: optimization, and processing architectures for space platforms
Drive key technical decisions for radar modes, timing, PRF selection, and RF: chain design considering orbit dynamics
Complete radar analyses including range/Doppler resolution, SNR, ambiguity: analysis, interference assessment, and orbital effects on performance
Analyze mission requirements including orbit selection, ground track patterns, and revisit characteristics
What they're looking for
- Develop and execute radar calibration strategies and image quality validation methods for spaceborne systems
- Support the development of radar test plans, procedures, and automated test systems
- Lead the design and development of radar GSE including calibration sources and test fixtures
- Support spacecraft integration activities and interface with bus subsystem: teams (power, thermal, ADCS, data handling)
