Senior Manager, Avionics and Power Systems

Vast is looking for a Avionics & Power Systems Engineering Manager, reporting to the Senior Director of Avionics Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test, to develop world-class Avionics  & Power Systems for Vast’s human rated space station and next-generation satellite programs,

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Responsibilities:

Hire and manage a team of world-class avionics and power systems engineers.

Negotiate between business and technical stakeholders to establish program requirements and drive system-level architecture trades to closure.

Develop and own the fault management strategy for the avionics and power subsystems.

Lead cross-functional engineering teams to capture system-level operating modes, fault tolerance requirements, constraints, and behaviors and drive their implementation in the avionics and power systems.

Drive the generation of Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) for Avionics and Power Systems.

Quantify Avionics and Power System performance metrics and sensitivities to drive technical decisions using analysis or modeling infrastructure.

Identify Avionics and Power System verification milestones in the form of analyses, demonstrations, inspections, and tests to ensure program success.

Own the vehicle Interface Control Document (ICD) and all of the processes and tools which achieve configuration control across the entire vehicle, keeping hardware and software teams synchronized.

Define and own vehicle and system level verification campaigns. Work closely with Avionics Test and Integration Test teams to ensure timely and accurate execution of verification events.

Lead efforts to consolidate verification reports and support Final Verification Review for Avionics and Power Systems for each program.

Work closely with the Vehicle Systems Engineering team to develop and maintain Validation & Verification tracking processes and supporting tools

Supervise Avionics & Power Systems engineers to deliver tasks to time and quality requirements. Support team to establish relative priorities between tasks.

Lead Avionics & Power Systems Engineering team to produce high quality documentation for program milestone requirements.

Serve as a mentor for junior engineers with the team on best practices in Systems Engineering.

Minimum 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.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

Demonstrated experience championing a culture of systems engineering, heavily emphasizing verification and validation through analysis and test with a test-like-you-fly mentality.

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.

Additional Requirements:

Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones

Pay Range: California

$160,720—$261,900 USD