Senior Systems Engineer
Vast
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 Systems Engineer, reporting to the Staff Systems Engineer, to support the development of vehicle 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:
- Negotiate between business and technical stakeholders to establish vehicle and system level requirements
- Utilise and manage a requirements management system to track requirements and manage the technical product
- Drive system level architecture trades to closure
- Work with Mission Assurance and System teams to own the fault management strategy for the space station and subsystems
- Work with system disciplines to quantify and manage system performance metrics and sensitivities to drive technical decisions
- Identify program level verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, and tests to ensure program success
- Support Technical Project Management to unblock technical teams, and drive progress
- Lead RCCA’s and Design Reviews to improve design reliability and technical product
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or other comparable engineering discipline
- Demonstrated ownership of a space system or product for 5+ years. Examples can include experience within avionics systems, mechanical systems, propulsion systems, software engineering, reliability, or test engineering
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Recognized as an exemplary systems engineer within an organization, with work products that have high level visibility to senior management
- Sole systems engineer on a cross functional team developing a product with complexity in operations and design
- Demonstrated experience improving or starting a culture of systems engineering in a project or program with little systems engineering overhead, heavily emphasizing verification and validation through analysis and test with a test-like-you-fly mentality
- Systems engineering experience in aerospace on a manned space flight program.
Additional Requirements:
- Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones
Pay Range:
- Senior Systems Engineer: $140,000 - $170,000
- Staff Systems Engineer: $160,000 - $200,000
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
