Thermal Fluids Design Reliability Engineer

Long Beach, CAfull timeOn Site

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$162k–$265k

H1B: no

Vast Thermal Fluids Design Reliability Engineer at Vast to guide design, verification, and validation of thermal fluids systems on Haven-1 space station. Responsible for driving FMEA, reviewing test plans, and ensuring design robustness through collaboration with hardware teams.

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership: Guide design of thermal, environmental control, and life support systems on a large scale space station.
Cultivate Vast's understanding of thermal and fluids analysis considerations to drive design decisions.
Lead the technical reviews providing clear, decisive guidance of mechanical design and analysis, manufacturing drawings, test plans, concept of operations, during milestone design reviews and major risk gates.
Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews, and of acceptance and qualification test campaigns
Ensure that the Vasts design process & design criteria/requirements are being followed for flight, launch, and ground support systems.
Set the standard for acceptance and qualification test completeness for flight systems, ensuring our test campaigns are robust, disciplined, and aligned with human-rated reliability.
Bring deep engineering intuition to test campaigns, identifying risks early and helping teams converge on safe, resilient solutions.
Design Excellence: Architect Vast’s thermal fluids, environmental, and life support engineering standards, design guides, and review frameworks; build tools that enable fast, confident decision-making at all levels across the company.
Develop design criteria, requirements, and verification approaches to support haven-1 design architecture
Make engineering best practices accessible and actionable, especially for engineers moving rapidly under ambitious program timelines.
Support and elevate engineering teams across the organization by bringing broad experience in design, build cycles, integration, and test.
Turn organizational knowledge into lasting guidance by capturing lessons learned and strengthening future standards.

Qualification

Experience in Responsible EngineeringHands-on experience designingBackground with spacecraftFamiliarity with fracture controlKnowledge of manufacturing processes

Required

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or related Engineering discipline
6+ years of related professional work experience in responsible engineering, design ownership, systems integration, test engineering, or reliability-focused development.

Preferred

10+ years of related professional work experience in responsible engineering, design ownership, systems integration, test engineering, or reliability-focused development.
Experience in Responsible Engineering, Systems Engineering, Office of the Chief Engineer, or Reliability Engineering roles on complex aerospace systems.
Hands-on experience designing, assembling, integrating, or testing hardware.
Background with spacecraft, aircraft, launch vehicles, or other mission- or safety-critical systems.
Familiarity with fracture control, reliability methodologies, or human-rated hardware standards.
Experience creating engineering standards, review templates, or technical guidance frameworks.
Strong scripting and data analysis skills (Python, MATLAB, Excel) and familiarity with visualization tools (e.g., Tableau).
Knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials selection, and hardware qualification pathways.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
401(k)
PTO
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

Company

Vast

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