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VastPosted Nov 5, 2026
Senior Manager, Avionics and Power Systems
Long Beach, CAfull timeOn Sitesenior$161k–$262kH1B: no
Vast The Senior Manager, Avionics and Power Systems at Vast leads a team developing avionics and power systems for human-rated space stations and satellites. This role drives system architecture, fault management, and verification strategies.
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.
Qualification
Experience in space flight operations
Required
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
- PTO
- Equity/RSU
- Parental Leave
- Life Insurance
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