GNC Engineer

ABOUT ROCKET LAB

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. Come shape the future with us.

SENIOR GNC ENGINEER II - MISSION FORMULATION

Based out of Rocket Lab’s site in Littleton, CO, the Senior GNC Engineer II - Mission Formulation is responsible for Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) design, modeling, analyses, and testing for Rocket Lab launches and missions. You'll play an integral part of Rocket Lab’s Global Launch Services (GLS) Mission Formulation Team, which works closely with other Engineering teams and Production to bring new launch and mission concepts to life. 

As part of the Mission Formulation team, you'll be responsible for conducting trades studies, preliminary and final mission analyses, and definition and implementation of detailed designs for Rocket Lab’s launch programs. This team is also primarily responsible for the formulation and implementation of launches and missions for classified missions on HASTE and Electron launch vehicles. 

Success in this position will be measured by the value of the knowledge and experience in launch vehicle design and mission experience that you bring into this role, your ability to contribute to projects without supervision, successful collaboration with other teams across Rocket Lab, and the skillful prioritization of competing engineering projects across the group. 

WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO:

• GNC contact to Business Development for proposals and mission definition 
• Launch and mission operational concept development 
• Orbital and suborbital trajectory design and analysis 
• Work with external stakeholders and customers for mission-specific requirements engineering 
• Document proposed GNC solutions and participate in design reviews with customers 
• Support hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) testing to verify trajectories, GNC, and flight code performance 
• Conduct Monte Carlo simulation analyses to define and verify launch and mission operations 
• Develop and support release of flight code for pre-launch ground testing, launch, and mission operations 
• Develop tools and processes for automating common GNC modelling and analysis tasks 

(Please note: This position can be hired at the Senior GNC Engineer I/II level.)

YOU’LL BRING THESE QUALIFICATIONS AS SENIOR GNC ENGINEER I: