Flight Software Engineer I - Electron Avionics

Rocket Lab; Auckland; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Lab in Auckland, New Zealand, is seeking a Flight Software Engineer I for the Electron program. You will contribute to flight and ground software that controls avionics and communications throughout the lifecycle from production to launch.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, CS, or EE and at least 2 years of software experience, with strong C/C++ skills and Linux environment familiarity. A dynamic space engineering team awaits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or demonstrated equivalent level of knowledge.
• Minimum of 2 years experience within a software engineering related discipline
• C/C++ development.

Responsibilities

• Launch Vehicle Avionics Embedded Computers
• Ground Segment Communications
• Avionics simulations (including Hardware-in-the-loop)
• Develop software and unit tests according to bug-fix and feature requests
• Develop documentation for operation of software products
• Participate in review of flight code merge requests
• Facilitate software architecture meetings
• Approve Software Architecture designs
• Keep tickets up to date regarding work in progress
• Manage trade-studies
• Approve Software Requirements
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings
• Deliver training on use of software products
• Deploy operational software

Skills

C/C++ development

Embedded software

Linux

Python

Networking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering/Computer Science/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Linux systems

Python

Job description

Rocket Lab in Auckland, New Zealand, is seeking a Flight Software Engineer I for the Electron program. You will contribute to flight and ground software that controls avionics and communications throughout the lifecycle from production to launch.

The role requires a Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, CS, or EE and at least 2 years of software experience, with strong C/C++ skills and Linux environment familiarity. A dynamic space engineering team awaits.