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We're unlocking the potential of space.
The rockets and spacecraft we design, build and launch enable some of the most ambitious and vital space missions globally.
You could be part of them.

We're lifting human potential

Space has defined some of humanity’s greatest achievements and it continues to shape our future – a future our team is making a reality.

We’re on a mission to unlock the potential of space to improve life on Earth. From climate monitoring to national security, global communication to scientific exploration: the rockets and spacecraft developed by our team are enabling incredible things.

Join a driven team of pioneers relentlessly tacking challenging projects, delivering on the impossible, and making an impact on the future of space.

Want in? Find your team.
Careers

The world’s most frequently launched small rocket

Take your place on the team that’s delivering affordable, easy access to space for small satellites on Electron. Our Electron engineers, technicians, and launch operators are history makers who’ve achieved space and engineering world-firsts with Electron, and who continue to be actively involved in supporting missions that are important for the future of our planet, from testing new technologies, monitoring Earth’s climate, and connecting us with each other around the world.

A new rocket to change the game

Join the team starting from a blank slate to design and build a rocket for the future. Our teams behind our new large rocket Neutron are part of a new generation of aerospace engineers and technicians that aredisrupting the industry and offering another way to launch constellations of satellites at once, resupply cargo and take astronauts to the International Space Station, and go interplanetary.

Customizable satellites for earth orbit, the moon, and beyond

Designing, testing, and manufacturing our customizable satellites and spacecraft components is a huge team effort across multiple locations to achieve a common goal: support satellites and missions that expand human knowledge and connection and explore our solar system. Whether you’re building complete satellites or the parts that make them, know that everything you do supports a mission to succeed.

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Where We Are

We operate multiple offices, factories, test, and launch sites throughout the United States and New Zealand. Explore our locations and find your place in space.

Long Beach. CA

California is home to Rocket Lab’s headquarters, and where we support rocket propulsion design, engingeering, and manufacture of the engines for our Electron and Neutron launch vehicles. Rocket Lab HQ is also home to our spacecraft assembly, test, and integration operations.

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Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque is the location of our space solar cell production site, where solar panels and solar arrays are built and tested before integration to Earth orbit and deep-space spacecraft.

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Middle River, MD

Our newest location, we’ve introduced a Space Structures Complex in Middle River where we’re developing and building carbon composite spacecraft structures and components, and launch vehicle structures for our Neutron rocket.

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Littleton, CO

Rocket Lab’s Colorado office develops our ever-evolving space software products that contribute to flight software, mission simulation, spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control, and mission design.

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Silver Spring, MD

Maryland is home to our production of satellite separation systems, mechanical products which have supported the success of satellite missions for more than 20 years.

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Stennis Space Center, MS

Our engine test site for our Neutron rocket is located at the historic Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. It’s here where we’ll conduct hot fires and key engine component tests for our Archimedes engine.

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Wallops Island, VA

Within the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia is Rocket Lab Launch Complex 2, the home of Electron launches, and Rocket Lab Launch Complex 3, which will be the location of our reusable rocket Neutron’s launches and landings after returning from space.

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Washington, DC

Rocket Lab’s Washington D.C. office supports our government relations by engaging with federal, state, local, and international policymakers and regulators on behalf of Rocket Lab.

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Toronto, CA

Located in Toronto, Canada, our satellite components designed, tested, and made here contribute to our space systems program across the world.

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Auckland, NZ

Rocket Lab’s Auckland, New Zealand location manufactures, assembles, and prepares our Electron rocket for launch. Our global Mission Control Center is located here alongside operations for our space systems programs and satellite components production.

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Mahia, NZ

Our Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Mahia, New Zealand is the world’s first private orbital launch site, and where test and launch operations are completed for our Electron launch vehicle.

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Waikato, NZ

Rocket Lab’s Waikato location is home to Rutherford engine testing and supports other R&D propulsion and technology development.

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Warkworth, NZ

Advanced manufacturing and carbon composite production for the Electron rocket and development for our Neutron rocket’s carbon composite structures is located at our newest production complex in Warkworth, New Zealand.

Our Values

Innovation flows through
everything we do.

We are efficient with every
dollar and every hour of time,
every day.

We are consistently, pushing
boundaries and rising to opportunities.
The space industry is ever-changing
and so are we.

We are the best
at what we do.

Together we are unstoppable.
We trust each other, collaborate
to conquer and have tough
conversations when we need to.

Excellence is our starting point
and everything we create
is a work of art.

EEO Statement

Rocket Lab is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. An individual with a disability who needs a reasonable accommodation for the application or hiring process for a job in the United States should contact Giulia Biow at g.biow@rocketlabusa.com for more information.

This dedicated contact resource is intended solely to assist job seekers with disabilities whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be considered. A response to your request may take up to two business days.

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