Harness Design Engineer II — Spacecraft Avionics (Equity)

Rocket Lab; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Lab in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Harness Design Engineer II to design electrical harnesses for our spacecraft. You will organize interfaces, select components, specify locations, and generate documentation for CAD models to be produced by the spacecraft engineering team.

You will also assist in electrical engineering activities, supporting avionics circuit design, analysis, prototyping, and testing, while collaborating with avionics designers to ensure reliability and manufacturability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering; or another engineering degree.
• 2+ years of electrical engineering or avionics experience.
• U.S. citizenship required due to program requirements.

Responsibilities

• Harness layout and connector/back shell selection for spacecraft.
• Generate harness pinout tables based on spacecraft diagrams.
• Maintain BOMs for harnessing in PLM system.
• Create documentation for electrical schematics and harness designs.
• Develop test plans for avionics subsystems.
• Analyze and optimize avionics circuits for performance and reliability.
• Participate in design reviews as avionics representative.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams on electronic assemblies.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Avionics experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering

Tools

LT Spice

Altium

Siemens Teamcenter

JAMA

Job description

Rocket Lab in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Harness Design Engineer II to design electrical harnesses for our spacecraft. You will organize interfaces, select components, specify locations, and generate documentation for CAD models to be produced by the spacecraft engineering team.

You will also assist in electrical engineering activities, supporting avionics circuit design, analysis, prototyping, and testing, while collaborating with avionics designers to ensure reliability and manufacturability