Senior Manager, Avionics and Power Systems

Vast is looking for a Avionics & Power Systems Engineering Manager, reporting to the Senior Director of Avionics Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test, to develop world-class Avionics & Power Systems for Vast’s human rated space station and next-generation satellite programs.

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

• Hire and manage a team of world-class avionics and power systems engineers.
• Negotiate between business and technical stakeholders to establish program requirements and drive system-level architecture trades to closure.
• Develop and own the fault management strategy for the avionics and power subsystems.
• Lead cross-functional engineering teams to capture system-level operating modes, fault tolerance requirements, constraints, and behaviors and drive their implementation in the avionics and power systems.
• Drive the generation of Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for Avionics and Power Systems.
• Quantify Avionics and Power System performance metrics and sensitivities to drive technical decisions using analysis or modeling infrastructure.
• Identify Avionics and Power System verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, inspections, and tests to ensure program success.
• Own the vehicle Interface Control Document (ICD) and all of the processes and tools which achieve configuration control across the entire vehicle, keeping hardware and software teams synchronized.
• Define and own vehicle and system level verification campaigns. Work closely with Avionics Test and Integration Test teams to ensure timely and accurate execution of verification events.
• Lead efforts to consolidate verification reports and support Final Verification Review for Avionics and Power Systems for each program.
• Work closely with the Vehicle Systems Engineering team to develop and maintain Validation & Verification tracking processes and supporting tools
• Supervise Avionics & Power Systems engineers to deliver tasks to time and quality requirements. Support team to establish relative priorities between tasks.
• Lead Avionics & Power Systems Engineering team to produce high quality documentation for program milestone requirements.
• Serve as a mentor for junior engineers with the team on best practices in Systems Engineering.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other hard science
• 8+ years of post bachelor’s experience working with aerospace avionics systems
• 2+ years of experience leading or managing cross functional teams developing a product with complexity in operations and design; direct people management experience required.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Demonstrated experience championing a culture of systems engineering, heavily emphasizing verification and validation through analysis and test with a test-like-you-fly mentality.
• End-to-end experience leading Validation and Verification (V&V) campaigns
• Experience leading requirements analysis and decomposition activities
• Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage.
• Experience in space flight operations, ideally supporting vehicle operations plans and procedures for human space flight.
• Experience designing vehicle power systems against complex safety and fault tolerance requirements.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Experience with industry standard Systems Engineering principles and best practices.

Additional Requirements:

• Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones

Compensation and Benefits

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: 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 & 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.

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.