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Vast Conference

Senior / Staff Build Reliability Engineer (Avionics)

Long Beach, California, United States · Staff+ · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$138k-$230kDetected 7 days ago
Product ManagementSupply ChainProcess ImprovementAvionicsResearchLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world's first commercial space station when it launches, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030.
  • If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.
  • This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities

  • Own Build Reliability for avionics hardware and work centers, setting expectations for reliability, manufacturability, and build and flight readiness.
  • Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Mission Assurance leadership to ensure robust, scalable quality and verification plans across the product lifecycle, with lessons consistently carried across programs.
  • Drive maturation of internal avionics production processes, ensuring documentation, equipment, tooling, process controls, data collection, and training support consistent and streamlined execution.
  • Partner with Mission Assurance to drive risk mitigations and steer response plans to severe issues.
  • Collect and analyze build data to identify risk and recurring issues. Lead build quality reviews, generate data-driven recommendations, and effectively influence partner teams to prioritize efforts that prevent escapes and improve reliability.
  • Lead containment and root-cause investigation of high-impact Avionics-related issues. Ensure implementation and verification of robust corrective actions that address root cause and systemic contributors across Vast.
  • Lead major cost reduction initiatives through simplification of requirements, clearer design standards, streamlined inspection and process validation steps, and strengthened process controls.
  • 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.
  • Vast is looking for a Senior / Staff Build Reliability Engineer (Avionics), reporting to the Director of Build & Supplier Reliability, to support the reliability of flight avionics hardware across the product lifecycle for our human-rated space stations.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
  • 12+ years of experience in quality, manufacturing, reliability, or design in aerospace, defense, or high-reliability hardware environments
  • Ability to travel up to 10%

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills & Experience:
  • Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent experience preferred
  • Mastery of advanced reliability and quality tools (RCA, FMEA, SPC, control plans)

Skills

  • Proven track record of driving systemic improvements and shaping engineering strategy.
  • Deep expertise in reliability engineering, quality systems, and standards (ISO 9001, AS9100, etc.)
  • Mastery of advanced reliability and quality tools (RCA, FMEA, SPC, control plans); Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent experience preferred

Compensation

  • $137,760 - $230,472 USD
  • Base salary will vary depending on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand.
  • Salary is just one component of our comprehensive compensation package.

Benefits

  • Base salary will vary depending on job-related knowledge, education, skills, experience, business needs, and market demand.

Company info

  • At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space.
  • Vast is developing next-generation space stations to ensure a 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.
  • Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time.

Equal opportunity

  • Vast is an Equal Opportunity Employer
  • employment with Vast is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
  • Vast is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Vast is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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