Senior Avionics Engineer

Rocket Lab is an end-to-end space company delivering responsive launch services, spacecraft design, manufacturing, payloads, and satellite components to open access to space. The rockets and satellites enable ambitious missions for scientific exploration, Earth observation, climate change, national security, and technology demonstrations. Electron has delivered over 230 satellites to orbit while developing Neutron for larger deployments.

The Space Systems team designs and builds complete satellites and components like solar panels, flight software, reaction wheels, star trackers, separation systems, and radios for commercial, government, and defense missions. As Senior Power Electronics Engineer, you will lead design, development, and verification of high-power flight electronics for ion propulsion power processing units and high-voltage distribution systems. You will own projects from concept through production for robust hardware in space environments.

Daily work involves architecting DC-DC converters, power distribution units, and custom magnetics while meeting efficiency, thermal, and EMC requirements. You will perform electrical analyses including Worst-Case Analysis, FIDES, Power Integrity, thermal simulations, and high-voltage stress analysis. Expertise guides technical decisions across multiple flight programs.

Join engineers and technicians building satellites for NASA Moon and Mars missions and components for James Webb Space Telescope. Contribute to spacecraft avionics integrity in high-stakes space environments. Advance propulsion and power systems for cutting-edge missions.