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Senior CMF Designer
Senior CMF Designer leading color, material, and finish strategy end-to-end for human-rated space stations, collaborating with industrial designers, engineers, and vendors on aerospace-grade materials and production.
Staff Software Engineer, Mission Software
Staff Software Engineer at Vast developing software systems for testing, commanding, and monitoring spacecraft for next-generation space stations. The role involves mentoring junior engineers and maintaining ground systems for space operations.
Security Officer I
Physical Security Officer managing visitor access, conducting patrols, and maintaining incident reports at Vast's Long Beach space station facility across rotating shifts.
Senior System Architect, Lunar
Define and maintain end-to-end system architecture for Vast's Lunar ecosystem—surface habitats, power, comms, logistics, and crew systems—translating NASA Moon Base requirements into executable subsystem designs across structures, ECLSS, avionics, and thermal teams.
Pre-Sales Engineer
Pre-Sales Engineer bridging engineering and customers for Vast's satellite business, using simulation tools and AI to translate technical tradeoffs into proposals.
Software Engineer II, Enterprise Applications
Vast is hiring a Software Engineer II for its Enterprise Applications team in Long Beach, CA, to design, build, and maintain full-stack web applications and backend services supporting space station development. The role covers frontend frameworks, APIs and microservices, data modeling, and relational databases across the full software lifecycle.
Avionics Test Engineer
Vast, a commercial space station company, is hiring a Senior Avionics Test Engineer in Long Beach to design, build, and commission automated test systems for avionics hardware on human-rated space stations. Day-to-day work spans test case development, HITL co-simulation, troubleshooting, and mentoring, using Python/C++, Linux, and modular DAQ ecosystems like NI and Beckhoff.
Project Manager, European Industrial Partnerships | Chef de projet, Partenariats Européens industriels et Stratégiques
Project Manager at Vast's small Paris office (Vast Europe), building and managing European industrial partnerships for its commercial space station and satellite business. Day to day: mapping the European space supplier ecosystem, structuring partnerships, running research and institutional proposals, CRM/pipeline reporting, and event/project coordination.
Project Manager, Human Spaceflight and Satellites | Chef de projet, vols spatiaux habités et satellites
Runs European sales campaigns, institutional bids (ESA, national space agencies), and early-stage program execution across human spaceflight and satellites from Vast's Paris office, acting as the interface between European customers and HQ in Long Beach. Requires 5–7 years of aerospace program/bid management and English fluency.
Mechanical Test Engineer II
Designs, builds, and operates test rigs and GSE for ECLSS fluid, chemical, and electrical control systems on Vast's human-rated space stations. Day-to-day is hands-on hardware testing: assembly, instrumentation, data collection and analysis, test documentation, and supporting Haven-1 acceptance/qualification campaigns, using CAD (Siemens NX) and Python.
Senior Linux Systems Administrator
Vast, a space station developer in Long Beach, CA, is hiring a Senior Linux Systems Administrator to design, deploy, and maintain Linux workstations and servers. The role centers on Puppet configuration management, Ubuntu workstation imaging, Tier 2/3 troubleshooting, LDAP/Active Directory, and supporting hardware and software developers.
Proposal Manager, Special and Commercial Programs
Vast (Long Beach, CA) is hiring a Proposal Manager to own the end-to-end proposal lifecycle for its high-power satellite bus, targeting DoW, Intelligence Community, Space Force, and commercial customers. The role covers win strategy, compliance matrices, color team reviews, and classified proposal work in SCIFs, requiring 10+ years of proposal management and an active or reinstatable TS/SCI cleara
Staff HPC Infrastructure Engineer
Staff engineer who builds, architects, and owns Vast's high-performance compute (HPC) infrastructure supporting aerospace simulations (structural, dynamics, CFD) for space station design and analysis. Day-to-day spans cluster lifecycle management, SLURM/Linux operations, AWS ParallelCluster, and integration with engineering tools like NX/Teamcenter, Nastran, Abaqus, and Ansys.
Assembly Integration & Test Engineer, Satellites
Founding Assembly, Integration & Test Engineer for Vast's satellite product line in Long Beach, CA: you define the integration flow and test philosophy, build environmental test stands and MGSE/EGSE, and lead build/test campaigns from first development unit through rate production. Requires hands-on spacecraft integration, environmental testing (TVAC, vibration), and scripting in C/C++, Python, or
Solar Array Test Engineer
Vast is hiring a Solar Array Test Engineer in Long Beach to own qualification and environmental/functional testing (TVAC, vibration, deployment, IV/EL characterization) of solar array hardware for its commercial space stations. Core skills include MATLAB/Python data analysis, DAQ instrumentation, and aerospace test standards like AIAA S-111 and SMC-S-016.
Senior Systems Engineer - Satellites
Vast, a commercial space station company, is hiring a Senior Avionics Systems Engineer in Long Beach to own avionics systems for high-power satellites across design, integration, test, launch, and operations. The role centers on spacecraft systems design, fault-tolerant electronics, and verification of flight hardware.
Technical Project Manager, Software
Vast is hiring a Technical Project Manager, Software in Long Beach, CA to lead cross-functional development of hardware, software, and systems for its human-rated artificial-gravity space stations (Haven-1 and future products). The role manages scope, schedule, cost, and risk across engineering and mission-ops teams using PM tools like MS Project, SmartSheet, JIRA, and Confluence.
Staff Design Reliability Engineer
A senior reliability engineer at Vast who leads technical design reviews and safeguards engineering rigor for artificial-gravity, human-rated space stations. Day to day they own qualification/test completeness, design standards and review frameworks, and build tools and processes to keep flight hardware designs safe and compliant.
Senior Manager, Fluid Systems Design
Leads the fluid systems design team at Vast in Long Beach, translating propulsion, thermal control (TCS), and ECLSS architecture into vehicle packaging for Haven space station modules. The role manages and mentors designers, standardizes design practices, and coordinates with structures, analysis, test, and external partners.
IT Support Specialist II
Provides day-to-day IT help desk support to Vast's internal employees at its Long Beach HQ: troubleshooting Windows 10/11 and macOS, maintaining laptops, desktops and mobile devices, handling ITSM incidents (Jira SM/Zendesk) against SLAs, and onboarding/offboarding users. Requires 2+ years of IT experience.