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 2026. It is part of our stepping stone approach to continuous human presence in LEO. 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 Manager, Avionics Electrical Engineering, reporting to the Director of Avionics Engineering, to support the development of avionics 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:
- Lead team to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art avionics tailored for extreme performance and reliability in demanding environments.
- Recruit and empower a diverse team of engineers to develop on-vehicle components from initial requirements to vehicle installation.
- This role is both managerial and technical, and you will have significant input, guidance, review, and oversight on your team’s work.
- Exemplify a culture of excellence, extreme ownership, and safety. Enable engineers to take responsibility for the system level impact of their work.
- Communicate with various Vast internal stakeholders to capture project design criteria from the technical system owners and translate them into verifiable avionics design requirements for your team to implement.
- Identify project level verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, and tests to ensure program success.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or other comparable engineering discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in electrical circuit design, analysis and testing.
- 2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role.
- Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes.
- Experience with analog, digital, or mixed signal multi-layer PCB design.
- Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software.
- Experience managing the design of technical projects.
- Experience with circuit simulation software such as LTSpice or SIMPLIS.
- Deep understanding of electrical design and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage.
- Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage.
- Familiarity with spacecraft avionics systems and knowledge of space environment effects.
- Experience in space mission operations for manned space flight programs.
- Comfortable communicating technical topics to a variety of audiences.
- Ability to creatively solve problems and weigh against multi-disciplinary requirements together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions.
- Creative problem solver that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data.
- Self-motivated with strong learning, multi-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skills.
- Familiarity with NASA standards such as EEE-INST-002.
- Develop and implement engineering standards, protocols, and quality assurance processes to optimize system performance and safety.
- Conduct technical feasibility studies, simulations, and performance analyses to support project development.
Pay Range:
- Manager, Avionics Electrical Engineering: $150,000-$170,000
- Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering: $170,000-$205,800
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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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