Principal Electrical Engineer, Avionics

Vast is looking for a Principal Electrical Engineer, Avionics, reporting to the Senior Manager, Avionics Engineering, 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 Principal Electrical Engineer, Avionics, you will be responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining avionics hardware for our state-of-the-art commercial space station.

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

Responsibilities: 

• Lead a team of 2-3 engineers to deliver products on time.
• Partner with software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing teams to rapidly design, develop and test highly reliable electronics for our state-of-the-art commercial space station. 
• 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 or act as responsible engineer for flight hardware, from conception through build, qualification, flight integration, and ultimately flight operations.
• Support build and process improvement through troubleshooting build problems and work to simplify and streamline recurring work to enable higher reliability of the avionics hardware.  
• 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.
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Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of experience with avionics design, analysis, and/or unit level testing.
• 1+ years of experience leading a team of engineers.
• 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.
• Comfortable communicating technical topics to a variety of audiences.
• Ability to creatively solve problems and weigh against multi-disciplinary requirements together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions. 
• Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage.
• Hands-on experience with sizing, installing and troubleshooting various electronic components.
• Experience with wire harness design and build, including associated sub-components.
• Experience with NX or similar CAD software.
• Competence with electrical test equipment (multimeters, oscilloscopes, network analyzers, power supplies, etc.)
• Creative problem solver that can bring multiple disciplines together with the ability to assess risk and make design and development decisions without all available data.  
• Self-motivated with strong learning, multi-tasking, organizational, communication and documentation skills.
• 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% of the time to support launch campaigns

Pay Range:

• $165,000-$200,000 for Staff
• $200,000-$235,000 for Principal