Senior Mixed Signal Design Engineer, Haven

Vast is looking for a Senior Mixed Signal Design Engineer Engineer, reporting to the SVP of Engineering, to support the development of hardware 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: 

• “Responsible Engineer” for components that are critical to flying a human safe space station.
• Design, analysis, modeling, simulation, and characterization of mixed-signal circuits.
• Participate-in a multi-functional engineering team environment to develop and integrate hardware, software, and network technology for products and systems.
• Establish product objectives, specifications and technical solutions to ensure products satisfy customer requirements and deliverables. Focusing on the electrical inputs and outputs required to sense and control a spacecraft. 
• Lean across interfaces and act as systems engineer to ensure the product you’re delivering to the space station meets the system needs. 
• Contribute to all aspects of the product life cycle (concept, development, integration, qualification, acceptance, delivery, and maintenance).
• Work effectively across multiple corporate functions including business, engineering, operations, and manufacturing.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related engineering discipline
• 5+  years of experience with analog design, development, test, and verification
• 5+ years of experience working with a production facility to make sure hardware is manufacturable and reproducible
• Experience designing analog-to-digital conversion PCBs

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, or related engineering discipline
• Experience with PCBA design and Altium or similar software
• Previously qualified hardware for harsh environments (Space, Aircraft, Autonomous Vehicles, Military, etc.) with test campaigns including thermal, thermal vacuum, shock, vibration, and radiation
• 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
• Experience with fault-tolerant avionics computing architectures
• 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

Pay Range: 

• Senior Avionics Engineer Level III: $150,000 - $180,000
• Staff Avionics Engineer Level IV: $170,000 - $200,000