Director, Electrical Design

Vast is looking for a Director, Electrical Design, reporting to the Senior Vice President, Engineering, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. Use this space to describe the role and sell the candidate on the cool stuff they would get to work on. 

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

Responsibilities: 

• 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. 
• Support or act as responsible engineer for flight hardware, from conception through build, qualification, flight integration, and ultimately flight operations.
• Work with the engineers on your team to improve and establish best practices for design projects
• 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.  
• 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.
• Build out the team to design, build and deliver flight-qualified hardware for our space station
• Raise the bar for technical excellence on Vast Avionics in the fields of power electronics, crew interfaces, qualification campaign standards and circuit board layout design

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.
• Experience with avionics test equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes.
• Experience with analog, digital, or mixed signal multi-layer PCB design.
• Experience leading high functioning engineering teams

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Engineering M.S. or higher
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience with various board types, including high-density digital designs with 14 layers or more, power electronics, flex circuits, and RF circuits.

Additional Requirements:

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

Pay Range: 

• Director, Engineering M5: $184,900.00 to $245,100.00