Jobs at Vast

Leads Vast’s legal and regulatory compliance framework for export controls, FCC and spectrum licensing, CFIUS, facility clearance, FOCI mitigation, and commercial space policy. Advises cross-functional teams on ITAR/EAR, foreign-person access, licensing, national security matters, and international partnerships. Partners with DCSA, government agencies, outside counsel, and internal stakeholders while supporting regulatory engagement, compliance investigations, and special legal projects.

Develop and optimize manufacturing processes for thermal and environmental control hardware used in human-rated space stations. Design, fabricate, activate, troubleshoot, and maintain pressurized ground equipment and test articles. Create manufacturing plans and assembly procedures, perform hands-on integration and testing, resolve production issues through root cause analysis, provide design-for-manufacturability feedback, coordinate suppliers and quality teams, and drive continuous improvement.

Supports external communications and marketing for space stations, satellites, and lunar infrastructure. Responsibilities include media pitching, reporter relationship management, monitoring coverage, responding to inquiries, managing speaking and awards calendars, drafting communications materials, coordinating technical, legal, and export-control reviews, maintaining messaging, and tracking project timelines across teams.

Own RF products from development testing through mission service for human-rated space stations. Define designs, test plans, qualification and acceptance procedures, vehicle-level checkout tests, and integration activities. Coordinate with cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, project management, and vendor teams; document trade studies and design reviews; and support mission operations as an RF subject matter expert.

Develop and optimize manufacturing and assembly processes for avionics and wire harnesses. Create manufacturing plans and work instructions, perform hands-on assembly/integration/testing, resolve manufacturing issues via root-cause analysis, work with suppliers and QA, participate in design reviews, and drive continuous improvement.

The Legal Counsel will negotiate contracts, manage intellectual property, provide legal guidance for business, and assess compliance and risk. They will support the General Counsel on special projects and enhance contracting processes.

Coordinate multi-round and panel interview scheduling, onsite logistics, and candidate communication across open roles. Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to resolve scheduling issues, maintain recruiting coordination processes, identify workflow friction, and support talent operations projects. The role requires strong organization, communication, accountability, and attention to detail in a fast-paced onsite environment.

Develops, analyzes, builds, and tests spacecraft fluid components, electromechanical hardware, propulsion systems, and mechanisms. Owns critical spacecraft hardware, interfaces with production teams, performs engineering trade studies, and supports manufacturing and testing. The role requires mechanical or related engineering education, hands-on design/build/test experience, spacecraft propulsion knowledge, CAD and FEA proficiency, aerospace materials expertise, and up to 10% travel.

Develops spacecraft mechanisms from concept through flight, including design, analysis, fabrication, testing, and iteration. Owns critical spacecraft hardware, collaborates with production teams to translate designs into flight systems, performs trade studies and structural analysis, and supports testing, manufacturing, and integration. The role focuses on motorized assemblies, linkages, spring and damper systems, rotating hardware, and crew-operated mechanisms, with up to 10% travel to remote sites and vendors.

Designs and develops avionics boards, wiring harnesses, instrumentation, power electronics, and complex multilayer PCBs for flight hardware. Responsibilities include schematic capture, component selection, layout, electrical specifications, trade studies, and avionics test planning. The engineer supports safe, controlled testing and transitions engine systems from development to production while communicating progress and technical issues across the team.

Manage Vast’s electronics CAD library using Altium tools, including component symbols, footprints, 3D models, templates, reuse blocks, lifecycle states, and revision controls. Ensure compliance with IPC, NASA, and internal standards while supporting engineers with component selection. Review library accuracy and manufacturability, incorporate prototype and manufacturing feedback, and promote consistent PCB design practices across multidisciplinary teams.

Develop spacecraft mechanisms from concept through flight, including motorized assemblies, linkages, spring and damper systems, rotating hardware, and crew-operated assemblies. Design, analyze, build, test, and iterate hardware while owning critical spacecraft systems. Collaborate with production teams, technicians, engineers, vendors, and managers to translate designs into flight hardware and support rapid prototyping, manufacturing, testing, and continuous improvement.

Supports daily office and operational needs by moving and staging equipment, assembling furniture, preparing workstations, stocking supplies, assisting with onboarding and events, completing tickets and checklists, and maintaining safe, organized workspaces. The role requires prompt issue escalation, flexibility for shifting priorities, occasional overtime or weekend work, and the ability to lift up to 40 pounds. Responsibilities span office, shop, and operational environments.

Own end-to-end thermal architecture, modeling, qualification, and testing for lunar surface systems, including power stations, habitats, airlocks, and nodes. Design radiators, fluid loops, heat pipes, insulation, coatings, heaters, and thermal storage for lunar day/night extremes. Lead thermal budgets, model correlation, TVAC and thermal balance campaigns, design standards, margin policy, and NASA technical deliverables.

Leads a technician team supporting aerospace environmental testing and manufacturing activities. Coordinates assignments, reviews test plans and technical documentation, trains team members, and sets up and operates flight hardware for vibration, shock, thermal vacuum, and thermal-cycle testing. Maintains and troubleshoots laboratory equipment, supports test campaigns using Jira and Manufacturo, manages workshop infrastructure and tool control, and interprets technical drawings and work instructions.

Owns the architecture, design, development, qualification, integration, and flight readiness of avionics hardware for lunar vehicles. Responsibilities include requirements, electronics and PCB design, interface documentation, environmental testing, test benches, hardware-in-the-loop systems, supplier coordination, reliability analysis, troubleshooting, and corrective actions. The engineer will lead design reviews, collaborate across vehicle disciplines, mentor team members, and help establish the Lunar program’s avionics standards and capabilities.

Supports the manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing of avionics hardware and wire harnesses for human-rated space systems. Responsibilities include developing manufacturing processes, creating work instructions, designing tooling, resolving production issues through root cause analysis, reviewing supplier processes, supporting quality controls, and providing design-for-manufacturing feedback. The role also contributes to new product introduction, continuous improvement, design reviews, and team mentoring.

Owns end-to-end thermal control system test campaigns for human-rated space station hardware, including test planning, GSE design, assembly, instrumentation, execution, data analysis, and closeout. Performs hands-on testing of fluid and thermal components, resolves technical issues through root-cause analysis, supports design and test reviews, collaborates with engineering and manufacturing teams, and mentors junior engineers.

Design, manufacture, and test fluid-system tubing for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include developing tube-bending and welding cells, creating manufacturing plans and work instructions, leading first builds, designing tooling, resolving production issues through root-cause analysis, supporting quality processes, and improving tubing production efficiency.

Develop and execute human-rated spacecraft integration, manufacturing, assembly, and test processes for Haven-1. Support technicians and engineering teams, resolve production blockers and non-conformances, coordinate test plans and schedules, refine procedures, and implement root-cause corrective actions. The role requires hands-on hardware integration, cross-functional problem solving, safety-critical manufacturing experience, and occasional evening or weekend work during mission milestones.