Reliability Engineer
Vast · Long Beach, CA
- Level
- Engineer
- Team
- Reliability
- Travel
- 20%
- Industry
- Aerospace & defense
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
An engineer-level reliability role at Vast (aerospace & defense) in Long Beach, CA. In aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials engineering, mathematics, physics, or related technical discipline.
- Tools it names
- Root cause, FMEA
- Day to day
- about 20% travel
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How this role compares
Against 89 other live reliability postings in California.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Typical $111k–$158k, from 51 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 5+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Root cause 79%
- ✓ FMEA 50%
- ✓ New product launch 49%
- Automation 39%
- DOE 29%
- SPC 24%
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This plant: Vast in Long Beach
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Responsibilities
- ◆Perform system-level reliability analyses, such as fault tree analysis, building reliability block diagrams, and perform failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA/FMECA)
- ◆Perform reliability predictions using a variety of methodologies, including electronics reliability predictions
- ◆Assist engineering teams in performing trade studies
- ◆Develop and maintain spaceflight component reliability data
- ◆Identify critical components with significant impact to safety and mission success
- ◆Assist in root cause analysis, failure investigations, and risk characterization
Qualifications
- ✓Minimum of a B.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials engineering, mathematics, physics, or related technical discipline
Preferred Skills & Experience
- ✓Experience developing reliability models of spacecraft, launch site and/or launch vehicle systems
- ✓Experience with human-rated, safety critical systems
- ✓Experience with failure reporting and corrective action systems (FRACAS)
- ✓Experience with reliability/life test design (failure modes discovery, life demonstration, and screening), Weibull analysis and parameter estimation, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, and/or probabilistic risk analysis
- ✓Experience with performing reliability analyses including Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- ✓Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, fluid schematics, and electrical circuit diagrams
- ✓Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate technical information to non-technical partners
- ✓Ability to form relationships with experts from varying engineering fields and provide constructive feedback about safety and reliability concerns
Additional
Requirements
- ✓Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
- ✓Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones
- ✓Ability to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted
Pay Range: California
$112,340 — $159,468 USD
qualifications
and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
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Vast is developing next-generation space stations and space infrastructure using an incremental, hardware-rich, and low-cost approach. Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches in 2027, followed by additional Haven modules. Additionally, the company recently announced Vast Satellite , a high-power satellite product line leveraging its space station components and the heritage of Haven Demo.
Headquartered in Long Beach, California , and with more than 1,000 employees and over a billion dollars in private capital, Vast has built the facilities required to manufacture and operate America’s next space station. The company plans to develop future habitats and systems for the Moon and Mars, dedicated space stations for government partners, and other crewed systems that will unlock the expanding long-term space economy.
Vast is looking for a Reliability Engineer , reporting to the Vice President, Flight Safety & Mission Assurance, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of the world’s first commercial human-rated space stations.
This will be a full-time , exempt position located in our Long Beach location.
U.s. export control compliance status
The person hired will have access to information and items subject to U.S. export controls, and therefore, must either be a “U.S. person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 or otherwise eligible for deemed export licensing. This status includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, lawful permanent residents (green card holders), and asylees and refugees with such status granted, not pending.