Senior Avionics Systems Engineer

At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations, allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1, scheduled to be the world’s first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.

Vast is looking for a Senior Avionics Systems Engineer, reporting to the Director of Avionics, to support the development of systems required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location. 

Responsibilities: 

• Negotiate between business and technical stakeholders to establish program requirements
• Develop a requirements management system making requirements accessible and discoverable
• Drive system level architecture trades to closure
• Develop and own the fault management strategy for the space station and subsystems 
• Work with system disciplines to quantify system performance metrics and sensitivities to drive technical decisions using available modeling infrastructure
• Identify program level verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, and tests to ensure program success

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or other comparable engineering discipline
• Demonstrated ownership of a technical system or product for 5 years minimum. Examples can include experience within electrical, mechanical, software engineering, statistics, reliability, or test engineering
• Demonstrated experience as a system owner or technical project manager coordinating multiple technical stakeholders across multiple disciplines

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Demonstrated experience improving or starting a culture of systems engineering, heavily emphasizing verification and validation through analysis and test with a test-like-you-fly mentality.
• Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage. In addition, experience managing in-flight anomalies to resolution. 
• Experience in space mission operations for manned space flight programs. 

Pay Range:

• Senior Avionics Systems Engineer: $150,000-$170,000

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY