Senior GNC Engineer is open at Rocket Lab in Auckland, NZ. Posted on Sep 3, 2026, and still on Rocket Lab’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
you will be responsible for: Mission design including trajectory design and optimization, auto-sequence planning & design, Monte Carlo analysis, configuration management, and any other mission design, launch operations, verification and validation tasks as required. GNC system development including writing GNC flight software, developing algorithms and models, analyzing GNC hardware performance, analyzing flight…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on Rocket Lab’s careers page.
Hiring at Rocket Lab
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