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About Vast
Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich, and low-cost approach. Haven Demo's 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Haven-1 is expected to become the world's first commercial space station when it launches in 2027. Vast has also announced Vast Satellite, a high-power satellite product line leveraging space station components.
Headquartered in Long Beach, California, 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.
The Role
You'll work as a Reliability Engineer reporting to the Vice President of Flight Safety and Mission Assurance. This is a full-time, exempt position based in Long Beach, supporting the development of systems for the world's first commercial human-rated space stations.
Responsibilities
- Perform system-level reliability analyses, including fault tree analysis, reliability block diagrams, and failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA/FMECA)
- Perform reliability predictions using a variety of methodologies, including electronics reliability predictions
- Assist engineering teams in performing trade studies
- Develop and maintain spaceflight component reliability data
- Identify critical components with significant impact to safety and mission success
- Assist in root cause analysis, failure investigations, and risk characterization
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials engineering, mathematics, physics, or related technical discipline
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience developing reliability models of spacecraft, launch site, or launch vehicle systems
- Experience with human-rated, safety critical systems
- Experience with failure reporting and corrective action systems (FRACAS)
- Experience with reliability/life test design, Weibull analysis, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, or probabilistic risk analysis
- Experience performing FMECA and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, fluid schematics, and electrical circuit diagrams
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with ability to communicate technical information to non-technical partners
- Ability to form relationships with experts from varying engineering fields and provide constructive feedback about safety and reliability concerns
Additional Requirements
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
- Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones
- Ability to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted
Compensation
Base salary: $112,340-$159,468 USD, depending on experience and demonstrated capability.
Full-time employees receive company equity and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage; paid time off (20+ days vacation for exempt staff, with ability to cash out unused days); paid parental leave; short and long-term disability insurance; life insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; ClassPass credits; mental healthcare through Spring Health; free snacks, coffee, cold drinks, and dinner; and subsidized lunch.
Export Control Compliance
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls. You must be a U.S. person as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62, which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.