Avionics & Power Systems Engineering Lead – Space Station

Vast; City of Long Beach (NY); On-site; USD 161,000 - 262,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in compensation package

Medical, dental & vision coverage

Job summary

Vast in Long Beach, CA, seeks an Avionics & Power Systems Engineering Manager to lead a world-class team developing avionics and power systems for space station and satellite programs. This full-time, exempt role reports to the Senior Director of Avionics Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test, and requires 8+ years in aerospace avionics and 2+ years of cross-functional leadership.

On-site position with competitive compensation and full benefits.

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.

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.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation & communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other hard science

Job description

Vast in Long Beach, CA, seeks an Avionics & Power Systems Engineering Manager to lead a world-class team developing avionics and power systems for space station and satellite programs. This full-time, exempt role reports to the Senior Director of Avionics Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test, and requires 8+ years in aerospace avionics and 2+ years of cross-functional leadership.

On-site position with competitive compensation and full benefits.