Senior Software Systems Engineer II
Rocket Lab · Tucson, AZ
About this role
**Senior Software Systems Engineer II** **ABOUT ROCKET LAB** Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, and expanding humanity’s reach to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. We move fast, build real hardware for meaningful missions, and make the impossible routine. Come shape the future with us. **SPACE SYSTEMS** Rocket Lab’s Space Systems division builds complete spacecraft and precision payloads—from components and subsystems that help them thrive in space (including solar panels, flight software, star trackers, optical systems, separation systems, and radios). The division has enabled more than 1,700 missions across interplanetary exploration, in-space manufacturing, and national security and defense initiatives. **SENIOR SOFTWARE SYSTEMS ENGINEER II** Rocket Lab Optical Systems solves mission-critical space domain and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance challenges for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community customers. As a **Senior Software Systems Engineer II** based at our Optical Systems site in **Tucson, AZ**, you will design, develop, and test space-based electro-optical sensors. Systems engineers are responsible for technical budgets, requirements definition, test planning and execution, and overall management of the systems engineering process. You’ll also work hands-on with flight software and drive technical development for Space Systems missions. **WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO:** - Support the design, integration, and development of software for space-based optical instruments, subsystems, and payloads for airborne and space platforms - Understand and interpret overall system architecture, deriving and allocating software and firmware requirements to ensure consistency across interfaces and subsystems - Understand the software/firmware development pipeline and SW/FW development process, from requirements through build, integration, test, and release - Develop and maintain: - Technical budgets for vehicle performance - Software System requirements and verification techniques - Simulations and analysis across vehicle functions - Test methods and (additional details continue in the source)
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