Senior Avionics Engineer, Lunar

The role

You will serve as a Responsible Engineer for flight avionics hardware, owning design, development, qualification, and integration. You will define avionics architecture, design flight electronics, and manage requirements for lunar vehicles and systems.

What you will do

• Serve as Responsible Engineer for avionics subsystems and components
• Define and develop avionics architecture for lunar vehicles and systems
• Design and develop flight electronics including schematic capture and PCB layout oversight
• Write and manage avionics requirements and interface control documents
• Lead design reviews and present technical trades, analyses, and risks
• Plan and execute development, qualification, and acceptance test campaigns
• Build and maintain avionics test benches and ground support equipment
• Support integration of avionics into vehicle-level systems
• Partner with suppliers on procurement and design reviews
• Drive reliability, parts selection, and failure analysis practices

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
• 6+ years of experience designing, developing, and testing avionics or electrical hardware for aerospace, defense, or similarly demanding applications
• Demonstrated ownership of hardware from design through test and integration
• Willingness to travel to test sites, including Mojave and supplier or outside test facilities, as required
• Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones

Nice to have

• Experience serving as Responsible Engineer for spaceflight avionics through qualification and flight
• Experience with embedded systems, flight computers, power electronics, and data bus architectures
• Experience designing for radiation environments
• Proficiency with schematic capture and PCB design tools (e.g., Altium)
• Experience with environmental and EMI/EMC testing for spaceflight hardware
• Experience with coding languages (Python, C/C++, MATLAB)
• Experience standing up new hardware capability, labs, or teams in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment
• Demonstrated experience mentoring or leading engineers and technicians

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 and up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff
• 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 is developing the multi-module Haven Station and Lunar Systems.