Mission Assurance Engineer

At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. Vast is developing next-generation space stations to ensure a continuous human presence in space for America and its allies, enabling advanced microgravity research and manufacturing, and unlocking a new space economy for government, corporate, and private customers. Using an incremental, hardware-rich and low-cost approach, Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station. Haven Demo’s 2025 success made Vast the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. Next, Haven-1 is expected to become the world’s first commercial space station when it launches, followed by additional Haven modules to enable permanent human presence by 2030. Our team is all-in, committed to executing our mission safely and on time. If you want to work with the most talented people on Earth furthering space exploration for humanity, come join us.

Vast is looking for a Mission Assurance Engineer , reporting to the VP of Flight Safety & Mission Assurance, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations

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

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate launch readiness, verifies system is ready for flight

• Drive technical understanding and closure of identified risks

• Assess and communicate risks to executive leadership and external stakeholders

• Support technical reviews of software, hardware, and operations products

• Verify testing, deliverables, and review activities are complete

• Participate in critical space station operations, real-time anomaly investigations, and major root cause inv

Department: Flight Safety & Mission Assurance