# Technical Project Manager - Ground Systems

ABOUT ROCKET LAB Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems that keep the world connected, protected, expand 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 team is responsible for every satellite and satellite component made by Rocket Lab: from complete satellites destined for missions to the Moon and Mars, to the individual components and subsystems that make up a satellite like solar panels, flight software, reaction wheels and star trackers, separation systems, radios, and more. Our Space Systems team is made up of engineers, technicians, and designers who design, create, and put together our own satellites for missions across the commercial, government, and defense sectors, or who build and assemble satellite hardware and software that supports other satellite missions. TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER - GROUND SYSTEMS Rocket Lab is looking for a driven Technical Project Manager - Ground Systems, to be based out of our global headquarters in Long Beach, CA. This role

- **Id**: 3771986
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rocket-lab-technical-project-manager-ground-systems>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Long Beach, United States, Littleton, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T19:37:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T08:20:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10435
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Gym membership, Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Launch Services, Satellite Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 684473
- **Name**: Rocket Lab
- **Domain**: rocketlab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rocketlab-2>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 75
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.773
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 43
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 135000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Verification & Validation** — Optional: no
- **Cameo Systems Modeler** — Optional: yes
- **CCSDS** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **IBM DOORS** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Microsoft Project** — Optional: yes
- **Outlook** — Optional: yes
- **Smartsheet** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T21:50:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 43
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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