Rocket Lab USA

ERP Itar Program Management

Rocket Lab is hiring a Program Manager II at its Albuquerque, NM site (from the SolAero acquisition) to own the full lifecycle of programs — scope, schedule, budget, P&L, and customer communications — for solar/spacecraft hardware. Requires 2+ years of program/project management experience in technology, ideally with solar/EPC contracts, plus ERP/WBS familiarity.

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Senior Manufacturing Engineer- Composites

Automation CAD Corrective Action Fiber Itar +1 skills

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

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Manager, Mechanical Engineering

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ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

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Head of Mission Design & Flight Dynamics

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Leads Rocket Lab's global Mission Design & Flight Dynamics discipline, owning the technology roadmap, mentoring a multi-site team, and guiding flight dynamics for lunar, Mars, and Earth-orbit spacecraft missions. Requires 8+ years in spacecraft flight dynamics/operations plus orbit determination or trajectory optimisation expertise.

Supplier Quality Engineer (I, II, Senior I, Senior II) - PCBA

As9100 Assembly Confluence ERP Ionic +5 skills

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

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Flight Software Intern Summer 2027

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A summer 2027 on-site internship at Rocket Lab's Littleton, Colorado site, supporting the MAX Flight Software team in designing and testing flight software, including testing against emulated hardware. Open to students in CS/CE/SE/EE or related programs with at least one semester remaining after the internship.

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Flight Software Intern Spring 2027

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Rocket Lab is hiring a full-time, on-site Flight Software Intern in Littleton, CO to support the MAX Flight Software team designing and testing flight software, including testing against emulated hardware. The 12+ week internship starting Jan-Mar 2027 pays $27/hour and requires current enrollment in a CS/CE/SE/EE or related degree program.

C++ Git Itar Python Rust

Senior Program Manager I

ERP Itar Program Management

Runs the full program lifecycle — definition, planning, execution, closeout — for space solar programs at Rocket Lab's Albuquerque (SolAero) site, owning scope, schedule, budget, and P&L while serving as the main customer contact and coordinating engineering, manufacturing, test, and QA. Core work centers on ERP/WBS planning, financial forecasting, and EPC-style contract management.

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Systems Engineer - Mechanical

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Systems Engineer on Rocket Lab's Neutron rocket team in Auckland, architecting and integrating the launch vehicle's mechanical and fluid systems across thermofluids, propulsion, GNC, and structures — from critical design through integration and launch.

Senior Systems Engineer I

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Rocket Lab Optical Systems in Tucson, AZ seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to architect and integrate space-based optical payloads, defining electrical architecture, requirements, and controls while supporting integration and test through the payload lifecycle for the U.S. Space Development Agency's Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture.

Senior Global Supply Manager II

As9100 Assembly Corrective Action Itar Program Management

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

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Senior Manufacturing Engineer

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ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

Business Analyst Intern - Supply Chain

ERP Itar Process Improvement

An intern on Rocket Lab's Auckland supply chain team, analyzing supply chain and procurement data, building reports and dashboards, and improving processes using Excel and ERP/MRP systems while supporting cross-functional operations for rocket and spacecraft programs.

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Supplier Quality Engineer Intern

Corrective Action Itar Root Cause Analysis

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

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Data Engineering Intern

API Data Engineering Data Pipelines Data Science Data Visualization +11 skills

Intern on Rocket Lab's Operational Data team in Auckland, building and maintaining the data pipelines and software tools that engineers and analysts use to improve launch vehicles and space systems. Day-to-day work involves Python development, sprint participation, code reviews, and deploying tooling to a live operational environment.

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Lead, Manufacturing Engineer - Space Systems

Corrective Action Itar Oscilloscope

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

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Technician I-III, Ops Support – Facilities

Automation Emergency Response Itar OSHA

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

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Senior Manager, Test Site Operations

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ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move…

Radio Frequency Systems Engineer - Operations

An RF Systems Engineer ensures launch vehicle TT&C (telemetry, tracking & command) systems and their ground stations are mission-ready: defining TT&C strategies, managing space-to-ground interface documents and RF hardware configs, processing telemetry with Python or MATLAB, and supporting launch readiness reviews and post-flight analysis.

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