Senior Build Reliability Engineer - Structures (Space Stations)

InvestedintheMission; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 137,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

401(k)

Onsite meals

Job summary

Vast in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Senior / Staff Build Reliability Engineer (Structures) to support the reliability of vehicle integration and test operations across the product lifecycle for our human-rated space stations.

This full-time exempt role reports to the Director of Build & Supplier Reliability and will own build reliability, drive manufacturability, lead data-driven improvements, and coordinate with engineering, quality, and operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering
• 1+ years of experience in manufacturing, design, quality, reliability, or related roles
• Fluency in geometric dimensioning & tolerancing (GD&T)
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills, with the ability to work collaboratively in fast-paced environments

Responsibilities

• Own Build Reliability for piece part fabrication and structural sub-assemblies, setting expectations for reliability, manufacturability, and build and flight readiness, and ensuring lessons are learned and applied to future programs
• Enable successful introduction of new products to production, ensuring designs are manufacturable, requirements are valid and verifiable, measurement systems and processes are capable and efficient, and work instructions, equipment, tooling, and personnel are ready to achieve rate reliably
• Mature manufacturing and verification processes by improving process controls, tooling, measurement methods, data collection, work instructions, and training
• Collect and analyze build data to identify risk and recurring issues. Lead build quality reviews, generate data-driven recommendations to prevent issues and quality escapes, and effectively implement them in collaboration with partner teams
• Ensure off-nominal work is performed and documented reliably. Provide leadership and technical direction for high-visibility issues, establishing recovery plans and aligning operations, quality, and engineering on execution. Partner with Mission Assurance to ensure risks are escalated and properly mitigated across Vast
• Lead containment and root-cause investigation of high-impact issues. Ensure implementation and verification of corrective actions that address root cause and systemic contributors
• Lead cost-of-quality reduction initiatives that simplify requirements, leverage part and feature criticality to streamline inspection, improve design standards, and strengthen process controls to prevent non-conformances at the source

Skills

GD&T

Communication

Statistical analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

CMM

Laser measurement systems

Job description

Vast in Long Beach, CA is seeking a Senior / Staff Build Reliability Engineer (Structures) to support the reliability of vehicle integration and test operations across the product lifecycle for our human-rated space stations.

This full-time exempt role reports to the Director of Build & Supplier Reliability and will own build reliability, drive manufacturability, lead data-driven improvements, and coordinate with engineering, quality, and operations.