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 Change Manager reporting to the Senior Director, Flight Safety & Mission Assurance to support the development of the systems that will be 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, CA location.
The Change Engineer will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust change management system to support the vehicle development lifecycle. As the organization builds complex hardware systems—starting with Haven-1—this role ensures that any modifications to design, hardware, or systems architecture (e.g., adding solar arrays, altering harnessing, or adjusting mass) are reviewed, communicated, and implemented efficiently without compromising the integrity of the project baseline.
You will work closely with Engineering and cross-functional teams to evaluate proposed changes, communicate impacts, and ensure seamless implementation. Our goal is to embrace necessary change while maintaining stability and traceability within the program. A key focus will be creating a structured change process that minimizes disruption and ensures that technical, schedule, and resource implications are clearly understood and approved.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate all changes to Haven-1 and adjacent projects to ensure updates uphold system integrity and performance standards
- Maintain a change management system to allow for continuous insight into the configuration status and planned changes
- Partner cross-functionally across the Engineering organization to understand and communicate system level impacts of proposed changes before implementation
- Develop implementation plans with Engineering teams to ensure change minimizes risk to safety and mission success
- Continuously ensure alignment across team on timing and execution
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field
- 5-10 years of experience with at least 3-5 years of experience as a Reliability Engineer, Systems Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Design Engineer, or similar
- Experience with performing reliability analyses including Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Ability to form relationships with experts from varying engineering fields
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency with Atlassian products (Jira, confluence)
- Experience with human-rated, safety critical systems
- Experience doing change impact analysis
- Experience identifying and communicating potential risk to peers and engineering leadership
Pay Range:
Change Manager: $135,800 - $176,400
U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
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What We Do
Vast is developing next-generation space stations to ensure continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Using an incremental, hardware-rich and low-cost approach, Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches in 2026, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030.
With more than 1,000 employees at its Long Beach, California headquarters and over a billion dollars in private capital invested, Vast has built the facilities required to manufacture and operate America’s next space station. The company plans to develop future habitats for the Moon and Mars, dedicated space stations for government partners, and other crewed systems that will unlock the expanding long-term space economy.
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