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VAST Data

Staff Design Reliability Engineer

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

Sponsorship not specified$137k-$195kDetected 2 days ago
PythonMATLABData AnalysisData VisualizationExcelSystems EngineeringMechanical DesignAerospace EngineeringResearchLeadership

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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role

  • Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world's first commercial space station when it launches in 2027, followed by additional Haven modules.
  • Additionally, the company recently announced Vast Satellite, a high-power satellite product line leveraging its space station components and the heritage of Haven Demo.
  • This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Leadership: Lead the technical reviews that shape the future of artificial-gravity space habitats-providing clear, decisive guidance during milestone design reviews and major risk gates.
  • Evaluate complex design and operational changes, safeguarding technical integrity as the system evolves.
  • Design Excellence: Serve as the architect and guardian of Vast's engineering standards, design guides, and review frameworks-tools that enable fast, confident decision-making across the company.
  • Support and elevate engineering teams across the organization by bringing broad experience in design, build cycles, integration, and test.
  • Process Ownership: Build and steward the processes that ensure engineering rigor at scale-ensuring designs meet standards, reviews are comprehensive, and changes are consistently implemented.
  • Own and continuously refine design review templates, reliability checklists, and internal design guides.
  • Track design maturity and compliance across the station and vehicle architecture, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
  • Build tools, frameworks, and automation that empower engineers to explore design trade-offs and risks with clarity and speed.
  • Partner with configuration and change management so that every update to flight hardware is intentional, reviewed, and fully understood.
  • Partner with the internal software team to ensure system data, configuration details, and design decisions are well organized and accessible.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
  • 7+ years of experience in responsible engineering, design ownership, systems integration, test engineering, or reliability-focused development.
  • Strong communicator and collaborative leader with high emotional intelligence, diplomacy, and the ability to influence at all levels.
  • Experience in Responsible Engineering, Systems Engineering, Office of the Chief Engineer, or Reliability Engineering roles on complex aerospace systems.
  • Headquartered in Long Beach, California, and with more than 1,000 employees and over a billion dollars in private capital, Vast has built the facilities required to manufacture and operate America's next space station.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills & Experience:

Skills

  • Hands-on experience designing, assembling, integrating, or testing hardware.
  • Background with spacecraft, aircraft, launch vehicles, or other mission- or safety-critical systems.
  • Familiarity with fracture control, reliability methodologies, or human-rated hardware standards.
  • Experience creating engineering standards, review templates, or technical guidance frameworks.
  • Strong scripting and data analysis skills (Python, MATLAB, Excel) and familiarity with visualization tools (e.g., Tableau).
  • Knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials selection, and hardware qualification pathways.
  • Strong systems-level intuition and the ability to anticipate and articulate risks early.

Compensation

  • $137,000 - $195,000 USD
  • We calibrate level and compensation to the selected candidate's experience and demonstrated capability. We welcome applicants across a range of experience levels to apply.
  • 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.
  • Full-time employees also receive company equity, as well as access to a full suite of compelling benefits and perks, including: medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, generous paid time off

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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