Director, Power Electronics and Motor Control

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Vast

Long Beach, California, United States

On-site

Posted March 27, 2026

Job Description

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 Director, Power Electronics and Motor Control, reporting to the Vice President of Avionics, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations.

This role will lead the strategy, development, and execution of power electronics and motor control for the world’s first artificial-gravity, human-rated space stations. This person will provide end-to-end technical leadership, drive organizational excellence, and align cross-functional engineering teams toward mission success.

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

Responsibilities:

Define the long-term vision and technical roadmap for Power Electronics and Motor Control for Haven-1 and Haven-2.
Build, mentor, and scale a diverse, high-performing engineering team with a culture of technical excellence, safety, accountability, and innovation.
Own strategy to ensure on-time and within budget product delivery against internal and external business objectives. Deliver on project timelines from concept through production, launch, and on-orbit operation.
Technical leadership in architecture, design, development, and validation of power electronics and motor control, including MPPTs, power distribution units, and motor control.
Tactical planning with avionics partners in manufacturing, test, supply chain, and quality to meet the program needs in terms of process capacity, material readiness, equipment availability, and staffing.
Champion electrical hardware development: drive excellence in requirements capture, simulation, schematic capture, PCB design, packaging, bring-up testing, and environmental qualification.
Establish and manage verification and validation milestones across analysis, test, and system integration. Deliver hardware with a test-like-you-fly mentality and a data-driven strategy to verify reliability for a human-rated space station.
Implement engineering standards, documentation practices, and quality processes to increase reliability and efficiency.
Initiate R&D objectives and milestones to support Vast’s technology roadmap for Haven-2.
Lead internal and external design reviews with suppliers, partners, and customers.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline.
8+ years of experience technical leadership in avionics hardware and/or power electronics for satellite, spacecraft, or launch vehicle programs.
5+ years of engineering leadership leading or managing cross functional teams developing a product with complexity in operations and design.
Proven experience in design and technical mentorship in analog, digital, and/or mixed-signal circuit design and multi-layer PCB development.

Preferred 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.
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