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Perform thermofluids analysis for Rocket Lab’s Electron and Neutron vehicles, including propellant management, tank pressurization, RCS systems, thermal design, CFD, heat-transfer simulations, HVAC modeling, and thermal environments. Collaborate with design and test engineers to establish requirements, verify margins, process ground and flight data, identify anomalies, and resolve sensor issues. The role requires engineering programming, physics-based problem solving, and analysis in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Leads thermofluids analysis for Rocket Lab’s Electron and Neutron vehicles, including propellant management, tank pressurization, RCS systems, thermal design, heat transfer, HVAC, CFD, and data interpretation. Collaborates with design and test engineers to iterate concepts, define test requirements, demonstrate margins, process ground and flight data, resolve sensor issues, and mentor junior engineers.

Drive engineering change and configuration management for Rocket Lab’s Neutron launch vehicle. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, assess system-level impacts, maintain configuration baselines, validate fit-form-function and EBOM-to-MBOM integrity, manage obsolescence, and improve data integrity across Teamcenter, Jira, and Infor LN. The role also involves automating validation checks, enforcing engineering processes, and ensuring changes are accurately implemented in production.

Leads mechanical spacecraft and satellite system formulation for new business opportunities and missions. Responsibilities include developing bus configurations, structures, mechanisms, technical budgets, requirements, verification methods, analyses, test plans, CAD definitions, production drawings, interface specifications, and operational procedures. Owns mechanical technical development from concept through production, testing, and operation while supporting program management, vendors, schedules, budgets, and customer-facing documentation.

Lead global sourcing strategies and supplier relationships for rocket and satellite programs. Manage negotiations, contracts, supplier performance, cost reduction, risk mitigation, and supply chain resilience from prototyping through production. Partner with engineering, manufacturing, quality, legal, and contracts teams to ensure supplier capabilities meet program requirements and delivery, quality, and cost objectives.

Leads mechanical systems engineering for satellite and spacecraft design, including bus configurations, structures, mechanisms, mass budgets, requirements, CAD, FEA, verification, testing, and production support. Owns mechanical technical development from concept through operations, develops interfaces and design documentation, and supports business development, program management, schedules, vendors, and budgets for civil, commercial, and national security missions.

The Senior Supplier Quality Engineer establishes supplier quality systems, audits suppliers, develops control plans and standards, manages non-conformances and CAPA, investigates root causes, and verifies corrective actions. The role tracks supplier performance metrics, applies PFMEA and problem-solving methods, supports production scaling, drives continuous improvement, and coordinates quality requirements among suppliers, engineering, production, customers, and management.

Analyze and validate dynamics, vibration, acoustics, shock, and structural loads for Rocket Lab’s Neutron launch vehicle. Responsibilities include finite element and analytical simulations, dynamic test planning and support, sensor selection, test-data post-processing, correlation of measurements with numerical predictions, component mounting strategies, and qualification documentation. The role collaborates across avionics, mechanical, fluids, and propulsion teams from conceptual design through integration and launch.

Develop and deploy deep learning models for electro-optical and infrared image processing supporting space-based defense and intelligence missions. Build ML pipelines for data ingestion, feature engineering, training, and inference; collaborate on AI, machine learning, and computer vision solutions; prototype systems for operational integration; troubleshoot and maintain software; and evaluate emerging ML tools and techniques.

Operate and maintain spacecraft across commissioning, orbit raising, routine operations, and re-entry. Develop and test automated ground software, flight sequences, FDIR and telemetry configurations. Maintain operational code CI and testing, validate spacecraft using simulation and hardware-in-the-loop tools, support integrated spacecraft testing, verify mission requirements, and coordinate technical work across engineering teams.