Staff Product Security Engineer
Staff Product Security Engineer
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$ 150000 - 242000
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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 long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1 scheduled to be the worlds first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. Our team is all-in 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 Senior Product Security Engineer reporting to the Information Security Manager to assist in the management of the design implementation and validation of security requirements across all segments of Vasts mission systems.
This will be a full-time exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
Responsibilities:
- Developing top-level system requirements and flowing down requirements and implementation concepts to subsystem
- Define security development and test efforts implementation of security controls of components for the ground link and vehicle segments
- Support developing plans and estimates task execution project tracking reporting and risk identification and mitigation plans
- Interact with other functions to coordinate requirements solutions trades costs implementation system impacts and effectiveness
- Support compliance efforts as it relates to NIST 800-53
Minimum Qualifications:
- 5 years of hands-on experience
- Strong understanding of security architecture system requirements development and implementation concepts for complex systems
- Hands-on experience with threat modeling risk assessment and security testing methodologies
- Familiarity with cryptographic methods access controls and secure communications protocols
- Experience supporting project planning task execution reporting and risk management
- Strong ability to interact with cross-functional teams to align security requirements trade-offs and system impacts
- Experience in security assessments audits and remediation planning
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Understanding of compliance requirements and certifications like NIST 800-53
- Understanding of the SPARTA framework
- Prior experience developing implementing and validating a security features for a space system
- Familiarity operating in AWS
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
Additional Requirements:
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Willingness to work overtime or weekends to support critical mission milestones
Pay Range:
- Senior Product Security Engineer - $150000 - $204000
- Staff Product Security Engineer - $183000 - $242800
Salary Range: California
$150000 - $242000 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:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
