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# Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Vast, Inc
- **Location:** Long Beach, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $112,340.0 - $159,468.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Safety Critical Systems, Reliability of Systems
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a2c6f7f6b65213be

## About the Role

* Minimum of a B.S. in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials engineering, mathematics, physics, or related technical discipline

Preferred Skills & Experience:

 * Experience developing reliability models of spacecraft, launch site and/or launch vehicle systems
 * Experience with human-rated, safety critical systems
 * Experience with failure reporting and corrective action systems (FRACAS)
 * Experience with reliability/life test design (failure modes discovery, life demonstration, and screening), Weibull analysis and parameter estimation, stress-strength interference analyses, probability distribution estimation, reliability growth modeling, and/or probabilistic risk analysis
 * Experience with performing reliability analyses including Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
 * Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, fluid schematics, and electrical circuit diagrams
 * Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate technical information to non-technical partners
 * Ability to form relationships with experts from varying engineering fields and provide constructive feedback about safety and reliability concerns

Additional Requirements:

 * Ability to travel up to 20% of the time
 * Willingness to work evenings and/or weekends to support critical mission milestones
 * Ability to lift up to 25 lbs unassisted

## Description

* Perform system-level reliability analyses, such as fault tree analysis, building reliability block diagrams, and perform failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA/FMECA)
 * Perform reliability predictions using a variety of methodologies, including electronics reliability predictions
 * Assist engineering teams in performing trade studies
 * Develop and maintain spaceflight component reliability data
 * Identify critical components with significant impact to safety and mission success
 * Assist in root cause analysis, failure investigations, and risk characterization


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