Senior Avionics Engineer

Vast was founded to expand humanity's frontier into the solar system and beyond. We believe that the next step on that journey is enabling manufacturing and habitation in LEO. We are building artificial gravity space stations to make this a reality. If you want to join a team that builds amazing things with the most talented people on Earth, please reach out.

• Lead the design of architecture and development of avionics and power system for a large human-occupied system with challenging requirements for operational environments, accessibility, reliability, configurability and redundancy
• Provide technical direction and set top-level requirements to software and hardware agile development teams, integration, and test personnel
• Perform engineering analyses including trade studies, use case development, requirements definition, derivation, validation and verification, interface definition, Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis, etc. 
• Support planning, development, production, integration, testing, and operation of the avionics system in close concert with every related discipline

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or similar
• 5+ years of experience with circuit board design, analysis, or unit level testing (significant academic projects, internships, and traditional professional experience all qualify)
• 5+ years of experience with electronic components, wire harnesses, and electrical test equipment (e.g. multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies)
• Experience with electrical schematic capture software (Altium, Orcad or similar)
• Experience designing enclosures for electronics

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to creatively solve problems and bring multiple disciplines together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions with incomplete data set
• Experience working in collegiate project teams (e.g. Formula SAE, Hybrid Electric Vehicle) and/or professional experience Professional experience with instrumentation and data acquisition (e.g. SPICE, SQL, and/or National Instruments hardware)
• Experience with software programming: Matlab, LabVIEW, Python, Fortran, C/C++, JS, etc.
• Experience with vehicle and instrumentation buses such as GPIB, USB, TCP/IP, CAN, SPI, and I2C, as well as serial I/O (RS232/422/285)
• Experience with full-lifecycle product development
• Experience with designing electronics for spaceflight environment, verifying workmanship and operability through environmental test (random vibration, shock, thermal, burn-in, and TVAC)
• Strong sense of accountability and integrity with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to thrive at an early-stage startup where you will have the opportunity to help create and optimize key systems and processes