Flight Software Engineer I

While other companies talk about it, we do it!

Engineering is at the heart of Rocket Lab. Our engineering team has a proven track record of designing and developing world-class rockets and spacecraft that are changing the way we access and use space. You’ll work alongside driven, talented engineers from varied backgrounds and experience levels, all committed to ...

Electron flight software provides critical support to vehicle systems through launch and on orbit, operating rocket and spacecraft avionics, collecting and distributing telemetry and commands, and hosting guidance, navigation and control software. Flight software is used through the full lifecycle of the Electron ro...

Flight Software
Launch Vehicle Avionics Embedded Computers
Ground Segment Communications 
Avionics simulations (including Hardware-in-the-loop) 
Software Development
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

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. 
Experience with high-reliability software systems.
Experience with networking.
Radio communications and related technologies such as SDR, encoding schemes.
Embedded software development fundamentals.
Experience developing within Linux systems.
Python development.
Data processing and analysis.