Senior Manager, Avionics and Power Systems

The role

This person will develop Avionics and Power Systems for human rated space stations and next-generation satellite programs. They will manage a team of engineers and lead cross-functional efforts to establish requirements, architecture, and verification campaigns.

What you will do

• Hire and manage a team of avionics and power systems engineers.
• Negotiate between business and technical stakeholders to establish program requirements.
• Develop and own the fault management strategy for the avionics and power subsystems.
• Lead cross-functional engineering teams to capture system-level operating modes and behaviors.
• Drive the generation of Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA).
• Quantify Avionics and Power System performance metrics using analysis or modeling.
• Identify Avionics and Power System verification milestones.
• Own the vehicle Interface Control Document (ICD) and configuration control processes.
• Define and own vehicle and system level verification campaigns.
• Supervise engineers to deliver tasks to time and quality requirements.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other hard science
• 8+ years of post bachelor’s experience working with aerospace avionics systems
• 2+ years of experience leading or managing cross functional teams developing a product with complexity in operations and design
• Direct people management experience required
• Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones

Nice to have

• Demonstrated experience championing a culture of systems engineering
• End-to-end experience leading Validation and Verification (V&V) campaigns
• Experience leading requirements analysis and decomposition activities
• Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage
• Experience in space flight operations, ideally supporting vehicle operations plans and procedures for human space flight
• Experience designing vehicle power systems against complex safety and fault tolerance requirements
• Strong documentation and communication skills
• Experience with industry standard Systems Engineering principles and best practices

Benefits

• company equity
• medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• generous paid time off
• up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff
• up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff with the ability to cash-out unused vacation annually
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability insurance
• life insurance
• access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• ClassPass credits
• personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health
• snacks, drip coffee & onsite barista, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge

About the company

Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure. Headquartered in Long Beach, California, the company has more than 1,000 employees.