Senior Electrical Design Engineer

Vast is looking for a Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Avionics, reporting to the Director, Avionics, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. 

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

Responsibilities: 

• Act as responsible engineer for flight hardware, from conception through build, qualification, flight integration, and ultimately flight operations.
• 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 mission operations by providing real-time 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:

• Bachelor's 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 multi-layer PCB design.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software.
• Ability to creatively solve problems and asses risk. 
• Understand electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage.
• Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components.
• Experience with NX or similar CAD software.
• Competence with electrical test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, power supplies, etc.).
• 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 Range: 

• Senior Electrical Design Engineer: $137,760 - $195,552
• Staff Electrical Design Engineer: $162,360 - $230,472