Harness Design Engineer 1

Based out of Rocket Lab's global headquarters in Long Beach, CA, the Harness Design Engineer I will primarily work on design of electrical harnesses for our spacecraft, including organizing interfaces, selecting components, specifying split locations and lengths, and generating design documentation to pass to our spacecraft engineering team to allow accurate CAD models to be made. Since this role will have heavy involvement in electronics, you will also get to assist in the execution of electrical engineering activities for our spacecraft and space systems components. This includes assisting our avionics designers with circuit design, analysis, prototyping and testing. ## What You'll Get to Do - Harnessing: Perform or support design tasks such as harness layout, connector and back shell selection, wire selection, and shielding for our spacecraft. - Harnessing: Generate pinout tables for harness connectors at both ends of the assembly based on spacecraft interconnect diagrams. - Harnessing: Create and maintain BOMs for harnessing in our product lifecycle management (PLM) tool. - Harnessing: Assist in creating documentation for electrical system schematics and harness designs. - Avionics: Develop test plans and procedures for avionics subsystems and components. - Avionics: Perform analysis and evaluations to optimize spacecraft avionics circuits for performance, reliability, and manufacturability. - Avionics: Participate in internal design and customer facing review meetings as a representative of the avionics electrical engineering team. - Work in multi-disciplinary teams to assist in design of electronic assemblies for our satellite and spacecraft programs. ## Qualifications You'll Bring - Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering; or other engineering degree. - Experience with electrical engineering or avionics. - US citizenship is required, due to program requirements. ## Nice to Have - Master's or PhD in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering; or other engineering degree. - Experience in the aerospace/defense industry. - Experience supporting satellite development programs and satellite operations. - Thorough understanding of the space environment, orbital mechanics, and rigid body dynamics. - Experience with LT Spice, Altium, and/or Siemens software suite (i.e. Teamcenter). - Experience with requirement management tools such as JAMA. - Experience with testing electrical subsystems and assemblies, thermal vacuum or random vibration, and hardware-in-the loop (HITL) testing. - Proficiency in electronics principles and electrical systems, including power electronics, communication systems (e.g. RS-422, SPI, Ethernet, CAN bus), signal integrity, and grounding. - Proficiency with instrumentation, interfaces, and sensors, including power supplies, oscilloscopes, serial devices, accelerometers, thermocouples, RTDs, and 4-20mA sensors. - Ability to work in a dynamic environment with competing priorities.This position may require prolonged periods of sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional exposure to moderate levels of noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.