Jobs at Vast

Manage multi-state payroll processing and employment tax compliance across federal, state, and local jurisdictions. Responsibilities include payroll transactions, tax filings, reconciliations, year-end reporting, tax notices, audits, payroll records, and resolving discrepancies. The role partners with Finance, People Operations, auditors, and external providers while using payroll, HRIS, tax, timekeeping, and Excel systems to improve accuracy, controls, and processes.

Supports employees throughout the lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, employee communications, HRIS data maintenance, documentation, time-away tracking, and routine People Operations inquiries. Maintains confidential and audit-ready records, coordinates with cross-functional partners, administers separation documentation, supports compliance activities, and improves processes, SOPs, checklists, and employee experience.

Provide first-line technical support to employees, troubleshoot Windows and macOS systems, maintain computers and mobile devices, resolve ITSM incidents within SLA targets, manage onboarding and offboarding, perform hardware replacements and upgrades, and support multiple locations.

Lead Haven Station program operations, long-range planning, operational requirements, and strategic initiatives. Coordinate with Finance, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Facilities, and People teams to achieve headcount, capital expenditure, engineering asset, and program targets. Own program manifests, develop analytics and dashboards, report progress, manage cross-functional projects, and support product lifecycle scaling from development through production.

Leads the thermal control systems manufacturing engineering team for spacecraft hardware. Owns manufacturing development, production readiness, build execution, schedules, work instructions, inspection plans, process qualification, and nonconformance resolution. Partners with design, quality, supply chain, technicians, and integration teams to manufacture pumps, fluid loops, coldplates, heaters, and tubing. Mentors engineers, supports hiring, drives design for manufacturability, supplier readiness, root-cause corrective actions, and successful hardware integration.

Design, develop, manufacture, integrate, and test fluid system hardware for spacecraft and space station programs. Responsibilities include fluid analyses, pressurized hardware design, shop-floor assembly, leak and environmental testing, nonconformance resolution, root cause analysis, subsystem integration, and design reviews. Systems include environmental and thermal control, propulsion feed systems, pressurized gas hardware, and ground support equipment.

Manage HRIS data integrity, employee separations, termination documentation, Workers’ Compensation claims, international workforce administration, reporting, and People Operations process improvements. The role coordinates with HR, Legal, Payroll, Finance, IT, EHS, vendors, and business leaders while maintaining accurate, confidential, compliant employee records and supporting audits and risk management.

Designs and develops thermal control systems and components for human-rated space stations, including heat exchangers, cold plates, heaters, and heat pipes. Leads thermal, fluid, and systems engineering analyses; defines requirements, interfaces, margins, and verification methods. Oversees qualification testing, manufacturing improvements, design reviews, supplier coordination, and hardware delivery through production and launch. Partners with cross-functional teams to integrate reliable, manufacturable systems and resolve technical issues.

Design and test avionics enclosures, mounts, brackets, and other mechanical hardware for human-rated space stations. Perform thermal and structural analyses, create engineering drawings, support trade studies and requirements verification, and help qualify flight hardware. Collaborate with electrical engineers and technicians to package, build, assemble, install, and troubleshoot systems. This hands-on role also supports testing, data interpretation, and design documentation through critical mission milestones.

Design and develop primary and secondary structures for human-rated space stations from concept through flight hardware. Perform mechanical design, structural and thermal analysis, trade studies, interface definition, requirements verification, and qualification testing. Release drawings and test plans, support fabrication and assembly, and resolve manufacturing and test issues. The role requires collaboration with technicians and fabricators and may involve evening or weekend work during critical mission milestones.

Designs and develops avionics enclosures, mounting systems, integration brackets, and spacecraft mechanical components. Partners with electrical engineers on PCB packaging, performs thermal and structural analyses, leads trade studies and interface definition, releases drawings, manages configuration, and verifies requirements. Leads flight-hardware testing, qualification, assembly, installation, and issue resolution with technicians and fabricators. Supports critical mission milestones through occasional evening or weekend work.

Designs and analyzes primary and secondary structures for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, manufacturing drawings, structural and environmental analysis, trade studies, subsystem interface definition, test planning, and hands-on hardware assembly and testing. The role collaborates with senior engineers, fabricators, and technicians to troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing or test issues.

Design, analyze, build, and test thermal control components for human-rated space stations, including heat exchangers, cold plates, heaters, and heat pipes. Perform thermal and fluid analyses, support systems engineering and design trades, interpret test data, collaborate across engineering and operations teams, and troubleshoot hardware with technicians and suppliers while emphasizing manufacturability and reliability.

Supports certification planning and execution for Haven human-rated spacecraft. Responsibilities include tracking certification requirements and artifacts, maintaining verification status, coordinating across engineering and mission teams, developing verification plans and compliance documentation, participating in testing and demonstrations, identifying certification risks, and preparing evidence packages for certification milestones.

Leads fluid systems design for human-rated space stations, covering propulsion, thermal control, and ECLSS vehicle packaging and component design. Manages and mentors design engineers, establishes design practices, coordinates integration with structures, analysis, testing, manufacturing, and operations, and supports design reviews, risk management, supplier qualification, and technical interfaces with external partners and government agencies.

Build and manage vehicle-level finite element models for human-rated space stations. Perform structural dynamics analyses supporting structural sizing, mass and cost optimization, collaborate with design and test engineers, validate analysis methods, and support vibration testing across spacecraft development lifecycles.

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.

Leads high-priority technical initiatives from requirements through deployment and support. Designs internal tools, integrations, workflow automations, cloud solutions, and AI-enabled applications while translating business needs into scalable architectures. Partners with cross-functional and technical teams on security, governance, testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement. Manages priorities, risks, dependencies, roadmaps, and stakeholder expectations across multiple initiatives, with emphasis on AWS, automation, enterprise systems, and emerging technologies.

Senior Brand Designer creating event graphics, presentations, RFPs, illustrations, key art, layouts, typography systems, and visual assets. The role extends design systems, translates strategy into compelling creative, maintains brand consistency, presents work to stakeholders, and manages multiple fast-moving projects. It requires strong conceptual and production skills, expert Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, and Google Workspace proficiency, plus availability for up to 50% travel and occasional evenings or weekends.

Lead design and reliability reviews for human-rated space station systems. Oversee qualification and test completeness, assess design and operational changes, develop engineering standards and review frameworks, track design maturity and compliance, build risk-analysis tools, and collaborate across configuration management, software, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to improve system reliability.