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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Build Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Vast, Inc - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $137,760.0 - $162,960.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Failure Mode Effects Analysis, Hardware Design, Reliability Engineering, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Data Analytics - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-staff-build-reliability-engineer-integration-vast-8701158 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience. * 12+ years of experience in quality, manufacturing, reliability, or design in aerospace, defense, or high-reliability hardware environments. * Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives with executive visibility and influence technical direction across organizations. * Excellent communication and technical leadership skills. Preferred Skills & Experience: * Proven track record of driving systemic improvements and shaping engineering strategy. * Deep expertise in reliability engineering, quality systems, and standards (ISO 9001, AS9100, etc.) * Mastery of advanced reliability and quality tools (RCA, FMEA, SPC, control plans); Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent experience preferred. * Strong technical depth in hardware integration, assembly operations, and/or test operations Additional Requirements: * Ability to travel up to 10%. * Ability to support mission-critical events outside normal working hours. ## Description * Own Build Reliability for vehicle integration and test work centers, setting expectations for reliability, manufacturability, and build and flight readiness. * Partner with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, and Mission Assurance leadership to ensure robust, scalable quality and verification plans across the product lifecycle, with lessons consistently carried across programs. * Ensure successful introduction of flight hardware by defining integration readiness criteria-including process qualification, design for manufacturability and assembly, and inspectability-and driving the retirement of risks through production ramp-up. * Drive maturation of integration and test processes, ensuring documentation, equipment, tooling, process controls, data collection, and training support consistent and streamlined execution. * Ensure off-nominal work is performed and documented reliably. Partner with Mission Assurance to drive risk mitigations and steer response plans to severe issues. Provide leadership and technical direction for high-visibility issues, establishing recovery plans and aligning operations, quality, and engineering on execution. * Collect and analyze build data to identify risk and recurring issues. Lead build quality reviews, generate data-driven recommendations, and effectively influence upstream and partner teams to prioritize efforts that prevent escapes and improve vehicle reliability. * Lead containment and root-cause investigation of high-impact vehicle issues. Ensure implementation and verification of robust corrective actions that address root cause and systemic contributors across Vast. * Lead major cost reduction initiatives through simplification of requirements, clearer design and integration standards, streamlined inspection and process validation steps, and strengthened * process controls. * Mentor individuals and teams to elevate reliability capabilities across the company. ## Related Videos - [Leading with Reliability: Applying SRE Principles to Build Stronger Engineering Organizations](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100185-leading-with-reliability-applying-sre-principles-to-build-stronger-engineering-organizations) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [Quantum Computing - The tiny and the big challenges](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/934-quantum-computing-the-tiny-and-the-big-challenges) - [Staying Safe in the AI Future](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/521-staying-safe-in-the-ai-future) - [From Space to Software: Reliability Lessons 40 Years After Challenger](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100283-from-space-to-software-reliability-lessons-40-years-after-challenger) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Top Characteristics of a Software Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/166-top-characteristics-of-a-software-engineer) - [What is Software Engineering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/289-what-is-software-engineering) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Trustworthy AI Starts at Deployment: 5 Checks Before You Ship](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/753-trustworthy-ai-starts-at-deployment-5-checks-before-you-ship)