Senior Systems Engineer I - RF Mission Solutions is open at Rocket Lab in Long Beach, CA. The posting gives a salary of $124K - $171K. Posted on Aug 31, 2026, and still on Rocket Lab’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
, you hold primary technical ownership over how our core product line evolves to capture new missions. You will balance link budgets, antenna architectures, digital vs analog components, SWaP-C constraints and then some —while authoring those trades into winning technical concepts for defense and commercial customers. WHAT YOU’LL GET TO DO: Architect Clean-Sheet Payloads: Run early mission trades, define payload…
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