Senior Reliability Engineer

Vast is looking for a Senior Reliability Engineer, reporting to the Senior Director, Flight Safety & Mission Assurance, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

As a Reliability Engineer at Vast, within the Flight Safety and Mission Assurance organization, you will help pave the way for safe, reliable, and repeatable access to space. You will work in a fast-paced engineering environment, engaging with engineers to identify areas of opportunity for design improvements, and increase the probability of mission success. Your work will influence the design, build, operation, and maintenance of a human rated space station. If you enjoy being challenged, working on cutting edge space technology, and using all the tools in your belt to tackle real problems limiting access to human spaceflight, come join us.

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

Responsibilities: 

• Perform system-level reliability analyses, such as fault tree analysis, building reliability block diagrams, and perform 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

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of a B.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials engineering, mathematics, physics, or related technical discipline
• Experience with performing reliability analyses including Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (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, and 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

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience developing reliability models of spacecraft, launch site and/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 (failure modes discovery, life demonstration, and screening), Weibull analysis and parameter estimation, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, and/or probabilistic risk analysis

Additional Requirements:

• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time
• Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones
• Ability to lift up to 25lbs unassisted
• Specific certifications, as appropriate