Rocket Lab
rocketlab.com
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How Rocket Lab hires
Truth index
B 79/100
Median time to fill
39 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
81%
Reposted roles
2%
Rocket Lab scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 90 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 81% have gone stale and 2% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 39 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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- United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 9 · green card filings: 1
Overview
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. is a publicly traded end-to-end space company, launch services provider, and satellite systems manufacturer. Headquartered in Long Beach, California - having been originally founded in New Zealand - the enterprise operates private orbital launch sites in Māhia, New Zealand, and Wallops Island, Virginia. Its core business activities span lightweight orbital launches via its flagship Electron rocket, hypersonic testing capabilities via HASTE, and the development of its reusable medium-lift launch vehicle, Neutron.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Rocket Lab over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
171
Postings analysed
472
Stack modernity
63/100
Languages
Python51%
C++19%
MATLAB18%
SQL7%
Frameworks & libraries
Rocket6%
Keras3%
PyTorch3%
TensorFlow3%
Databases
InfluxDB2%
PostgreSQL1%
ElasticSearch1%
SQLite1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux15%
Kubernetes9%
Windows7%
AWS7%
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Full Rocket Lab tech stack
171 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$169k
Typical range
$40k – $522k
Open positions
317
317
Jobs
Intern
19.6%
Junior
3.5%
Middle
16.1%
Senior
48.9%
Staff
4.1%
Principal
5.7%
Architect
2.2%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intern | 62 | $56k | $40k – $169k |
| Junior | 11 | $125k | $102k – $155k |
| Middle | 51 | $144k | $58k – $176k |
| Senior | 155 | $208k | $84k – $522k |
| Staff | 13 | $155k | $96k – $258k |
| Principal | 18 | $332k | $135k – $376k |
| Architect | 7 | $353k | $215k – $422k |
Highest paying role
Senior Director, Business Development - Civil & Commercial
$522k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Rocket Lab
By role, level and city, against the market · 317 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
57/100
Growing
Open positions
520
131 opened / 153 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
41 days
faster than 32% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
28%
Aerospace
11%
Hardware
9% ▼
Field & Service
9%
Early Careers
6% ▼
Administrative
4% ▼
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+51 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+27 jobs in a week
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Added Qt to stack
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Added PyQt to stack
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Added CAPA to stack
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Added Abaqus to stack
Oct 2026
Added SRE to stack
Oct 2026
Added Prometheus to stack
Oct 2026
Added Platform Engineering to stack
Oct 2026
Added Mimir to stack
Oct 2026
Added Kibana to stack
Oct 2026
Added Amazon CloudWatch to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
14
Hiring now
13
Countries
4
Busiest office
Long Beach
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Long Beach
United States
HQ
RL Headquarters - Space Systems
259 open roles 292 posted in 90 days 24% engineering 2% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Aerospace, Industrial Engineering, Hardware
Auckland
New Zealand
Plant / site
Auckland Production Complex Factory
90 open roles 99 posted in 90 days 17% engineering 1% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Aerospace
Littleton
United States
Engineering / R&D
ASI Office
44 open roles 54 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 50-200 est. staff $214k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Aerospace, Industrial Engineering
Tucson
United States
Geost East Region/Chantilly
41 open roles 49 posted in 90 days 37% engineering 50-200 est. staff $199k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Sales, AI/ML
Middle River
United States
Plant / site
Space Structures Complex (SSC)
34 open roles 30 posted in 90 days 9% engineering 50-200 est. staff $125k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Administrative
Albuquerque
United States
RL Headquarters
27 open roles 28 posted in 90 days 15% engineering 50-200 est. staff $46k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Administrative, Finance
Chantilly
United States
Engineering / R&D
Geost East Region/Chantilly
17 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 41% engineering 50-200 est. staff $257k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, Backend, Hardware
Pasadena
United States
Plant / site
Motiv
14 open roles 23 posted in 90 days 21% engineering 50-200 est. staff $182k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, QA
Silver Spring
United States
Plant / site
PSC Office
12 open roles 17 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $89k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Field & Service, Operations
Toronto
Canada
Plant / site
Sinclair Office
5 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $43k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Sales
Washington
United States
Regional office
Washington D.C.
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff $44k Avg Salary
hires for Early Careers
Mahia
New Zealand
Launch Complex 1
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 1-10 est. staff
hires for Field & Service
Maramarua
New Zealand
Regional office
Propulsion Test Complex Office
1 open roles 100% engineering 1-10 est. staff
hires for DevOps
Munich
Germany
Regional office
Mynaric
1-10 est. staff
Jobs
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$130k – $229k per year • Equity • In office • Nationals only • 8+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Long Beach
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$199k – $325k per year • Equity • In office • Nationals only • 12+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Chantilly
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≈ $148k – $296k per year (Estimated) • In office • Nationals only • 12+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Tucson • Chantilly
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$281k – $339k per year • Equity • In office • TS/SCI • 12+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Long Beach
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STK
IBM DOORS
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$102k – $128k per year • Equity • In office • Nationals only • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Long Beach
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C++
PyQt
C++
Qt
DevOps
Linux
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