Senior Mechanical Test & Development Engineer

Rocketlab; Long Beach (CA); In loco; USD 132.000 - 198.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Stock options

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Health insurance

Paid time off

Gym discounts

Merchandise discount

Descrizione del lavoro

Rocket Lab’s Space Systems team in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Senior Mechanical Test Engineer I. This role leads end-to-end test campaigns and develops high-volume test infrastructure for spacecraft hardware in rigorous environments.

You will oversee scheduling, resourcing, and budgeting, while collaborating with design engineers to validate concepts and build complex MGSE for test campaigns.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of engineering experience in the aerospace industry.
• Experience using NX Nastran, NX CAD, and Teamcenter packages.
• Experience in component and system-level environmental testing.
• Experience with test automation and post-test data analysis.

Mansioni

• Lead qualification test campaigns.
• Lead high-volume acceptance test infrastructure development and insertion into the production floor.
• Advise on in-house test capabilities, limits, and future needs.
• Manage test projects end-to-end, to include resourcing, scheduling, and budgeting as needed.
• Hands‑on work with test infrastructure implementation and validation.
• Work closely with design and other test engineers to iterate through design concepts and determine test requirements.
• Design complex Mechanical Ground Support Equipment (MGSE) to support test implementation.

Conoscenze

8+ years aerospace

NX Nastran

NX CAD

Teamcenter

Test automation

Environmental testing

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering

Strumenti

Confluence

JIRA

Python

Descrizione del lavoro

Rocket Lab’s Space Systems team in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Senior Mechanical Test Engineer I. This role leads end-to-end test campaigns and develops high-volume test infrastructure for spacecraft hardware in rigorous environments.

You will oversee scheduling, resourcing, and budgeting, while collaborating with design engineers to validate concepts and build complex MGSE for test campaigns.