Team Lead - RF Ground SegmentActive
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
Set direction, coach performance, and build capability in a team responsible for critical RF infrastructure.
Act as the SME and product owner for ground station systems, covering RF: performance, network architecture, modems, and mission interfaces.
Drive development, commissioning, and upgrades of ground stations and global networks.
Partner with SpaceOps to prepare for missions, support operations, and ensure: systems are ready when it counts.
Collaborate with engineering, operations, and program teams, plus external: ground station providers, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Contribute to strategic projects, roadmap new capabilities, and support: business development with RF expertise.
What they're looking for
- Proven RF leadership experience, with the ability to mentor and engage teams: while consistently delivering under fast-paced, high-pressure timelines.
- Strong fundamentals in RF design: link budgets, cascaded analysis, modulation/coding.
- Experience with RF test and verification (VNAs, spectrum analysers, system-level testing).
- Solid systems engineering mindset: requirements, validation, documentation.
