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 Product Security Engineer, reporting to the Information Security Manager, to assist in the management of the design, implementation, and validation of security requirements across all segments of Vast’s mission systems.
This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Developing top-level system requirements, and flowing down requirements and implementation concepts to subsystem
- Define security development and test efforts implementation of security controls of components for the ground, link, and vehicle segments
- Support developing plans and estimates, task execution, project tracking, reporting, and risk identification and mitigation plans
- Interact with other functions to coordinate requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness
- Support compliance efforts as it relates to NIST 800-53
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience
- Strong understanding of security architecture, system requirements development, and implementation concepts for complex systems
- Hands-on experience with threat modeling, risk assessment, and security testing methodologies
- Familiarity with cryptographic methods, access controls, and secure communications protocols
- Experience supporting project planning, task execution, reporting, and risk management
- Strong ability to interact with cross-functional teams to align security requirements, trade-offs, and system impacts
- Experience in security assessments, audits, and remediation planning
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Understanding of compliance requirements and certifications like NIST 800-53
- Understanding of the SPARTA framework
- Prior experience developing, implementing, and validating a security features for a space system
- Familiarity operating in AWS
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
Additional Requirements:
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Willingness to work overtime, or weekends to support critical mission milestones
Pay Range:
- Senior Product Security Engineer - $150,000 - $204,000
- Staff Product Security Engineer - $183,000 - $242,800
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 artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system.
Vast’s mission is to enable large populations of humans to live and work in space, permanently.
Our solar system has the resources and room for humanity to thrive and expand without destroying Earth’s biosphere. Unlocking these resources requires in-space infrastructure and industry at an unprecedented scale.
We are building a world-class team to engineer the human experience in space.
Why Work With Us
We're developing artificial gravity space stations to expand humanity across the solar system in order to enable large populations to live and work in space. Not only is what we're working on groundbreaking, but the team prides itself on living by our values of respect, curiosity, action, and excellence making it a lot more fun to achieve our goal.
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