Senior Manager, Avionics Electrical Engineering at Vast

<div class="content-intro"><p>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. 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, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030. 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.</p></div><p>Vast is looking for a <strong>Manager, Avionics Electrical Engineering</strong>, reporting to the <strong>Director of Avionics Engineering</strong>, to support the development of avionics systems required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.&nbsp;</p> <p>This will be a <strong>full-time</strong>, <strong>exempt</strong> position located in our <strong>Long Beach</strong> location.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead team to design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art avionics tailored for extreme performance and reliability in demanding environments.</li> <li>Recruit and empower a diverse team of engineers to develop on-vehicle components from initial requirements to vehicle installation.&nbsp;</li> <li>This role is both managerial and technical, and you will have significant input, guidance, review, and oversight on your team’s work.&nbsp;</li> <li>Exemplify a culture of excellence, extreme ownership, and safety. Enable engineers to take responsibility for the system level impact of their work.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Identify project level verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, and tests to ensure program success.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Minimum Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or other comparable engineering discipline.</li> <li>5+ years of experience in electrical circuit design, analysis and testing.</li> <li>2+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role.</li> <li>Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes.</li> <li>Experience with analog, digital, or mixed signal multi-layer PCB design.</li> <li>Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software.</li> <li>Experience managing the design of technical projects.</li> <li>Experience with circuit simulation software such as LTSpice or SIMPLIS.</li> <li>Deep understanding of electrical design and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Skills &amp; Experience:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage.</li> <li>Familiarity with spacecraft avionics systems and knowledge of space environment effects.</li> <li>Experience in space mission operations for manned space flight programs.</li> <li>Comfortable communicating technical topics to a variety of audiences.</li> <li>Ability to creatively solve problems and weigh against multi-disciplinary requirements together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Self-motivated with strong learning, multi-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skills.</li> <li>Familiarity with NASA standards such as EEE-INST-002.</li> <li>Develop and implement engineering standards, protocols, and quality assurance processes to optimize system performance and safety.</li> <li>Conduct technical feasibility studies, simulations, and performance analyses to support project development.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Pay Range:</strong>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Manager, Avionics Electrical Engineering: $154,980-$219,996</li> <li>Senior Manager, Electrical Engineering: $177,120-$251,424</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Pay Range: California</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$154,980</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$251,424 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><div style="line-height: 1;"><strong>COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS</strong></div> <div style="line-height: 1;">&nbsp;</div> <div style="line-height: 1;"> <div> <div data-qa="message_pane"> <div> <div id="message-list"> <div id="message-list"> <div data-qa="slack_kit_scrollbar"> <div> <div data-qa="slack_kit_list"> <div id="message-list_1770163429.476589" data-qa="virtual-list-item" data-item-key="1770163429.476589"> <div data-qa="message_container" data-qa-unprocessed="false" data-qa-placeholder="false" data-msg-ts="1770163429.476589" data-msg-channel-id="D1T52LDR4"> <div data-qa-hover="true"> <div> <div> <div> <div data-qa="message_content"> <div> <div data-qa="message-text"> <div data-qa="block-kit-renderer"> <div> <div> <div>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. Full-time employees also receive company equity, as well as access to a full suite of compelling benefits and perks, including: 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, generous paid time off; up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff and up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff with the ability to cash-out unused vacation annually, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health, and other discounts and perks. We also take pride in offering exceptional food perks, with snacks, drip coffee &amp; onsite barista, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge, and lunch subsidized as part of Vast’s ongoing commitment to providing high-quality meals for employees.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="message-list_bottomSpacer" data-qa="virtual-list-item" data-item-key="bottomSpacer"></div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="line-height: 1;"> <p><strong>U.S. EXPORT CONTROL COMPLIANCE STATUS</strong></p> 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 <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-22/section-120.62">22 C.F.R. § 120.62</a> 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.</div> <div style="line-height: 1;">&nbsp;</div> <p style="line-height: 1;"><strong>EQUAL OPPORTUNITY</strong></p> <div style="line-height: 1;">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.</div></div>