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Develops artificial gravity space stations

Battery Electronics Engineer 2 - Battery

Board & Electronics DesignUpdated on Nov 10
Full-timeLong Beach, CA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field, completed or expected by June 2026.
  • At least 2 years of experience developing electrical hardware.
  • Experience working in battery electrical systems.
  • Experience working on collegiate project teams such as Formula SAE or Hybrid Electric Vehicle projects, and/or professional experience with instrumentation and data acquisition tools such as SPICE, SQL, or National Instruments hardware.
  • Experience programming in Matlab, Python, C/C++, or similar languages.
  • Experience with vehicle and instrumentation buses such as Ethernet, CAN, SPI, and I2C, and serial I/O such as RS232/422/485.
  • Experience with full-lifecycle product development.
  • Experience designing electronics for spaceflight environments and verifying workmanship and operability through environmental tests such as random vibration, shock, thermal, burn-in, and TVAC.
  • Willingness to work overtime or weekends to support critical mission milestones.

Responsibilities

  • Own battery electronics end to end, including specification, architecture, simulation, schematic capture, PCB design, mechanical packaging design, board-level bring-up and validation, environmental qualification, and integrated system-level validation.
  • Design circuits for functions such as battery voltage and current sensing, charge balancing, isolation and fault detection, power conversion, load switching, hot-swapping, inrush control, and over-current fault detection.
  • Perform failure modes and effects analyses and drive reliability design and validation plans at the system level.

Desired Qualifications

  • Creatively solve problems and bring multiple disciplines together while assessing risk and making design and development decisions with incomplete data.

About the Company

VAST

Develops artificial gravity space stations

Vast Space builds artificial gravity space stations to enable long-term human life in space. Its approach uses large rotating habitats that generate centrifugal force to mimic Earth's gravity, helping astronauts stay healthy during extended missions. The company designs, tests, demonstrates, services, and manufactures space infrastructure and customizable habitat modules for government space agencies, private aerospace companies, and research institutions that operate in lunar, Martian, or deep-space missions. Unlike others, Vast Space focuses on end-to-end artificial gravity solutions and ongoing support, not just concepts, and targets contracts that provide sustainable space habitats for science, exploration, and colonization efforts. The overall goal is to expand humanity’s reach across the solar system by creating scalable, gravity-enabled habitats that enable safe, long-term presence in space while protecting Earth's ecosystem.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Series A
Total funding
$500M
Headquarters
Long Beach, CA
Founded
2021

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