Harness Design Engineer – Spacecraft Avionics

Rocket Lab USA; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Parental leave

Paid holidays

Sick time

401(k)

Retirement plan

Employee discount

Job summary

Rocket Lab USA, headquartered in Long Beach, CA, is seeking a Harness Design Engineer I to design electrical harnesses for spacecraft and assist electronics engineers with circuit work. You will organize interfaces, specify components, and generate design documentation for CAD models to pass to the spacecraft team.

The role involves creating pinouts, maintaining BOMs in PLM, and contributing to test plans and analyses to improve performance, reliability, and manufacturability of avionics systems

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering; or other engineering degree.
• Experience with electrical engineering or avionics.
• Knowledge of harness design, aerospace components, and interconnects.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Electrical harness design

Electrical engineering

Avionics familiarity

Circuit analysis

Education

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

Master's or PhD in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering

Tools

LT Spice

Altium

Siemens Teamcenter

JAMA

Job description

Rocket Lab USA, headquartered in Long Beach, CA, is seeking a Harness Design Engineer I to design electrical harnesses for spacecraft and assist electronics engineers with circuit work. You will organize interfaces, specify components, and generate design documentation for CAD models to pass to the spacecraft team.

The role involves creating pinouts, maintaining BOMs in PLM, and contributing to test plans and analyses to improve performance, reliability, and manufacturability of avionics systems