Senior Manager, Avionics and Power Systems

Vast is looking for a Avionics & Power Systems Engineering Manager, reporting to the Senior Director of Avionics Systems Engineering, Integration, and Test, to develop world-class Avionics  & Power Systems for Vast’s human rated space station and next-generation satellite programs,

This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

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.

Minimum 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.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Demonstrated experience championing a culture of systems engineering, heavily emphasizing verification and validation through analysis and test with a test-like-you-fly mentality. 
• End-to-end experience leading Validation and Verification (V&V) campaigns
• Experience leading requirements analysis and decomposition activities
• Track record of deploying products with successful space flight heritage. 
• Experience in space flight operations, ideally supporting vehicle operations plans and procedures for human space flight. 
• Experience designing vehicle power systems against complex safety and fault tolerance requirements.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.
• Experience with industry standard Systems Engineering principles and best practices.

Additional Requirements:

• Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones