Build Reliability Engineer - Fluid Systems

<div class="content-intro"><div style="font-family: 'Instrument Sans', 'Segoe UI', Trebuchet MS, Tahoma, sans-serif;"> <p style="line-height: 1.4;">Vast is developing next-generation <strong>space stations and space infrastructure</strong> using an incremental, hardware-rich, and low-cost approach. Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station 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. 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 in 2027, followed by additional Haven modules. Additionally, the company recently announced <strong>Vast Satellite</strong>, a high-power satellite product line leveraging its space station components and the heritage of Haven Demo.</p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;">Headquartered in<strong> Long Beach, California</strong>, and with more than 1,000 employees and over a billion dollars in private capital, Vast has built the facilities required to manufacture and operate America’s next space station. The company plans to develop future habitats and systems for the Moon and Mars, dedicated space stations for government partners, and other crewed systems that will unlock the expanding long-term space economy.</p> </div></div><p>Vast is looking for a <strong>Build Reliability Engineer (Fluid Systems),</strong> reporting to the <strong>Staff Build Reliability Engineer</strong>, to support the reliability of flight hardware across the product lifecycle for our human-rated space stations. In this role, you will support machining, additive, and structural sub-assembly work centers, operating at the intersection of design, manufacturing, integration, and testing to ensure that our space systems meet the highest standards of safety, quality, and performance. This will be a full-time, <strong>exempt</strong> position at our <strong>Long Beach</strong> location.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own Build Reliability for fluid system component and sub-assembly build and test work centers, setting expectations for reliability, manufacturability, and build and flight readiness, and ensuring lessons are learned and applied to future programs.</li> <li>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 t