What are the responsibilities and job description for the Avionics Automation Test Engineer position at Rocket Lab USA?
SPACE SYSTEMS
This is a rare opportunity to play a key role in Rocket Lab’s evolution into an end-to-end space company that delivers launch, spacecraft, and on-orbit operations. The Space Systems Division is shaping Rocket Lab’s future with Photon, our brand of high-performance satellites, enabling innovative missions in low Earth orbit and beyond including missions for NASA to LEO, the Moon, and Mars and commercial customers, including leading the design and manufacture of 17 high-power telecommunication spacecraft buses for Globalstar.
Rocket Lab is also growing our spacecraft components business, anchored on the acquisition of Sinclair Interplanetary manufacturing reaction wheels and star trackers in Toronto, SolAero Technologies manufacturing solar power and primary structure solutions in Albuquerque, Planetary Systems Corporation manufacturing launch separation systems in Silver Spring, and Advanced Solutions, Inc., provider of flight and ground software as a service in Denver. Our components business is key to vertically integrating our spacecraft solutions and enabling constellations for customers.
AVIONICS AUTOMATION TEST ENGINEER
Based out of Rocket Lab’s global headquarters in Long Beach, the Avionics Automation Test Engineer is responsible for the design, test, and integration of the electrical systems and electronics that form the backbone of our Space Systems missions. This role will involve software development and automation. You will support the Space Systems organization, with deliverables required for internal leadership, board of directors, and investors.
WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO:
- Develop automated testing software for hardware in support of test programs
- Work with our global team to develop and improve software test tools
- Collaborate with the hardware design engineers to develop efficient testing strategies for Acceptance and Qualification test programs
- Support the design and development of space flight hardware to increase the level of design for testability and manufacturability
- Support the analysis of COTS component test levels against mission environmental test requirements
- Contribute to the development of engineering and business processes, including engineering and test processes, as well as other business processes to support Rocket Lab growth and capability
- Contribute to the development of engineering best practice areas such as test, design for manufacture and engineering change
YOU’LL BRING THESE QUALIFICATIONS (Note: you must meet every qualification in order to be considered):
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- 2 years of programming experience
- Experience with software development on a Linux Platform
- Experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering
- Programing experience in Python
- Understanding of electrical test equipment, test procedures, data acquisition systems and instrumentation
THESE QUALIFICATIONS WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE:
- Understanding of designing hardware from concept through production
- Experience with communication protocols like TCP/ UDP, serial communication or similar
Salary : $85,000 - $130,000
