Senior Electrical Design Engineer Avionics

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 longterm stays in space without the adverse effects of zerogravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven1 scheduled to be the worlds first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. Our team is allin 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 Electrical Design Engineer Avionics reporting to the Avionics Hardware Engineering Manager.As a Senior Electrical Design Engineer you will be responsible for developing testing and maintaining avionics hardware for our stateoftheart commercial space station.

This will be a fulltime exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with software mechanical thermal manufacturing teams to rapidly design develop and test highly reliable electronics for our stateoftheart commercial space station
• Perform component selection design analysis schematic capture circuit board design prototyping board bring up debugging circuit validation and design documentation for electrical designs
• Analyze and troubleshoot electronic assemblies define new processes design circuits/fixtures/tools and identify opportunities for improvement in both products and processes
• Support or act as responsible engineer for flight hardware from conception through build qualification flight integration and ultimately flight operations
• Support build and process improvement through troubleshooting build problems and work to simplify and streamline recurring work to enable higher reliability of the avionics hardware
• Support mission operations by providing realtime input during flight completing data reviews monitoring hardware performance and working with partners to simplify operation of our avionics systems
• Work with experts from other teams and departments to ensure that fielded systems perform their function while being efficient manufacturable and reliable
• Define acceptance testing and qualification requirements of new and existing hardware perform development and qualification testing to prove out design and formally document test results
• Travel to launch sites for testing and/or operations

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline
• 5 years of experience with avionics design analysis and/or unit level testing
• Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes multimeters current probes
• Experience with analog digital or mixed signal multilayer PCB design

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software
• Comfortable communicating technical topics to a variety of audiences
• Ability to creatively solve problems and weigh against multidisciplinary requirements together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions
• Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
• Handson experience with sizing installing and troubleshooting various electronic components
• Experience with wire harness design and build including associated subcomponents
• Experience with NX or similar CAD software
• Competence with electrical test equipment (multimeters oscilloscopes network analyzers power supplies etc.
• 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
• Selfmotivated with strong learning multitasking organizational communication and documentation skills
• Strong sense of accountability and integrity with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced autonomously driven and demanding atmosphere

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 10 travel to support launch campaigns

Pay Ranges:

• Senior Electrical Design Engineer: $135000 $170000
• Staff Electrical Design Engineer: $160000 $200000
• Principal Electrical Design Engineer: $184900 $245100

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY