Vast
Senior Manager, Avionics and Power Systems
$161K–$262K
Long Beach, California, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of post bachelor’s aerospace avionics systems experience; 2+ years leading or managing cross-functional product development teams, with direct people management required.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or other hard science.
About the job
Leads the engineering team developing avionics and power systems for human-rated space stations and satellite programs, from requirements and architecture through verification.
What you'll do
- Hire, manage, and mentor avionics and power systems engineers; lead cross-functional teams and set priorities.
- Own system requirements, architecture trades, fault management, FMECA, and vehicle interface configuration control.
- Define and lead verification campaigns, coordinate testing and reporting, and maintain validation and verification processes.
What they ask for
- 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 leading or managing cross-functional teams developing a product with complexity in operations and design; direct people management experience required.
- Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones.
Nice to have
- End-to-end experience leading Validation and Verification (V&V) campaigns; experience leading requirements analysis and decomposition.
- Space flight heritage or operations experience; experience designing vehicle power systems against complex safety and fault tolerance requirements.
Pay
$160,720 — $261,900 USD (base salary)
Tools
Failure Mode, Effects, and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Interface Control Document (ICD), Validation & Verification (V&V)
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