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Rocket Lab Corporation

GNC Engineer II

Long Beach, CAFrom $144kmidAdded today

About this role

Rocket Lab seeks a GNC Engineer II to design, model, and analyze guidance, navigation, and control systems for launch vehicles and space missions. You'll support mission formulation, trajectory design, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight code development for both commercial and classified programs.

What you'll do

  • Serve as GNC technical contact for business development proposals and mission requirements definition
  • Conduct orbital and suborbital trajectory design, optimization, and analysis
  • Perform Monte Carlo simulations and hardware-in-the-loop testing to verify GNC performance
  • Develop and release flight code for ground testing, launch, and mission operations
  • Document GNC solutions and participate in design reviews with customers and stakeholders
  • Build automation tools and processes for GNC modeling and analysis tasks

What they're looking for

  • Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) systems design
  • Orbital mechanics and closed-loop control systems
  • Trajectory optimization
  • Python or MATLAB for simulation and data analysis
  • C/C++ development
  • Hardware-in-the-loop testing and Monte Carlo analysis
  • Git version control
  • Requirements engineering and interface control documentation
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Rocket Lab Corporation

Rocket Lab builds spacecraft and satellites that it launches on its own rockets, developing the avionics, flight software, and ground systems needed to operate these vehicles in orbit. The company is hiring software engineers, test automation specialists, and spacecraft operations engineers to develop embedded flight software, design testing systems, and manage satellite fleet health across commercial and government missions.

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Likely interview questions

  • Describe your experience developing real-time control or estimation algorithms for autonomous vehicles, particularly launch vehicles.
  • Walk us through a trajectory optimization project you've led—what tools did you use and what were the key challenges?
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