Technical Leadership: Guide design of primary and secondary structures on a large scale space station.

Cultivate Vast's understanding of static and dynamic loads, vibrations, thermal and other environmental 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 structures 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.

Structures Design Reliability Engineer

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