Manager Avionics Electrical Engineering
Manager Avionics Electrical Engineering
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$ 150000 - 170000
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Job Description
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 you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity come join us.
Vast is looking for a Manager Avionics Electrical Engineering reporting to the Director of Avionics Engineering to support the development of avionics systems required for the design and build of artificialgravity humanrated space stations.
This will be a fulltime exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Lead team to design develop and deploy stateoftheart avionics tailored for extreme performance and reliability in demanding environments.
- Recruit and empower a diverse team of engineers to develop onvehicle components from initial requirements to vehicle installation.
- This role is both managerial and technical and you will have significant input guidance review and oversight on your teams work.
- Exemplify a culture of excellence extreme ownership and safety. Enable engineers to take responsibility for the system level impact of their work.
- 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.
- Identify project level verification milestones in the form of analyses demonstrations and tests to ensure program success.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or other comparable engineering discipline
- 5 years of experience in electrical circuit design analysis and testing
- 2 years of experience in an engineering leadership role
- Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes multimeters current probes
- Experience with analog digital or mixed signal multilayer PCB design
- Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software
- Experience managing the design of technical projects
- Experience with circuit simulation software such as LTSpice or SIMPLIS
- Deep understanding of electrical design and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
- Handson experience with sizing installing and troubleshooting various electronic components
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering or related engineering discipline
- Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage
- Familiarity with spacecraft avionics systems and knowledge of space environment effects
- Experience in space mission operations for manned space flight programs
- 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
- 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
- Familiarity with NASA standards such as EEEINST002
- Develop and implement engineering standards protocols and quality assurance processes to optimize system performance and safety
- Conduct technical feasibility studies simulations and performance analyses to support project development
Pay Range:
- Manager Avionics Electrical Engineering: $150000$170000
Salary Range: California
$150000 $170000 USD
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
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
