Senior Propulsion Components Engineer I​/II

Senior Propulsion Components Engineer I/II

Location:

Long Beach, CA.

• Owning development of new or existing products or systems, acting as technical lead to guide team through end-to-end development process.
• Conceptual and detailed designs in CAD for propulsion system components as well as performance calculations, and analysis.
• Review and approval of others' drawings, 3D PMI, reports, and specifications.
• Test planning, setup, instrumentation, execution, and data analysis.
• Communicating with project stakeholders internal and external to the team.
• Technical risk-based decision making to the right/best solution when faced with an engineering challenge.
• Project management including schedule building and maintenance, identifying top priority items, tasking of other engineers and technicians, and communication of status to leadership and other teams.
• Mentorship and coaching of people within the team on technical and professional development.
• Defining and maintaining standard of excellence for the team through documentation, training, coaching, and review of others' work.
• Contributing to engineering process development and documentation at Rocket Lab related to areas of experience.

• 5+ years of experience in propulsion system development or equivalent high‑performance field.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (aerospace, mechanical, mechatronics, or other technical engineering discipline).
• Detailed mechanical design experience using NX (preferred) or equivalent industry standard CAD software and Product Lifecycle Management software such as Teamcenter (preferred), Windchill, or similar.
• Track record of design reviews and approving release of flight parts, qualification reports and decisions for flight hardware.
• Experience with end‑to‑end development process including gathering requirements, detailed design, qualification, production, and acceptance testing.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team environment.
• Hands‑on integration and testing experience (ideally using NI equipment and software).
• Experience working on propulsion systems utilizing different storable propellants, such as electrical and chemical.
• U.S. citizenship and willingness to obtain a security clearance required, due to program requirements.

• 8+ years of experience in propulsion system development or equivalent high‑performance field.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (aerospace, mechanical, mechatronics, or other technical engineering discipline).
• Detailed mechanical design experience using NX (preferred) or equivalent industry standard CAD software and Product Lifecycle Management software such as Teamcenter (preferred), Windchill, or similar.
• Track record of design reviews and approving release of flight parts, qualification reports and decisions for flight hardware.
• Experience with end‑to‑end development process including gathering requirements, detailed design, qualification, production, and acceptance testing.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well within a team environment.
• Hands‑on integration and testing experience (ideally using NI equipment and software).
• Experience working on propulsion systems utilizing different storable propellants, such as electrical and chemical.
• U.S. citizenship and willingness to obtain a security clearance required, due to program requirements.

• A genuine passion for engineering, curious mindset, and willingness to learn.
• Comfortable working with high levels of ambiguity. Makes decisions using basic engineering principles, available literature and standards, technical risk assessments, test data, and physics‑based models.
• Practice in identifying the necessary steps to achieve high level technical goals, scheduling them in a plan, and managing delivery against that plan.
• Experience developing requirement and verification sets, as well as writing test plans, performing testing, and writing test reports.
• Capabilities using Python for data manipulation and post‑processing.
• Demonstrated hands‑on engineering skills, inside or outside the workplace.
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