Staff Product Security Engineer

Vast Space • Long Beach, CA

53d • Onsite

About The Position

At Vast, our mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space. We are building artificial gravity space stations, allowing long-term stays in space without the adverse effects of zero-gravity. Our initial crewed space habitat will be Haven-1, scheduled to be the world's first commercial space station when it launches into low earth orbit in May 2026. 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 Senior Product Security Engineer, reporting to the Information Security Manager, to support the development of the systems that will be required for the design and build of artificial-gravity human-rated space stations. This will be a full-time, exempt position located in our Long Beach location.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience.
• Strong understanding of security architecture, system requirements development, and implementation concepts for complex systems.
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling, risk assessment, and security testing methodologies.
• Familiarity with cryptographic methods, access controls, and secure communications protocols.
• Experience supporting project planning, task execution, reporting, and risk management.
• Strong ability to interact with cross-functional teams to align security requirements, trade-offs, and system impacts.
• Experience in security assessments, audits, and remediation planning.

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of compliance requirements and certifications like NIST 800-53.
• Understanding of the SPARTA framework.
• Prior experience developing, implementing, and validating a security features for a space system.
• Familiarity operating in AWS.
• Prior experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Developing top-level system requirements, and flowing down requirements and implementation concepts to subsystem.
• Define security development and test efforts implementation of security controls of components for the ground, link, and vehicle segments.
• Support developing plans and estimates, task execution, project tracking, reporting, and risk identification and mitigation plans.
• Interact with other functions to coordinate requirements, solutions, trades, costs, implementation, system impacts, and effectiveness.
• Support compliance efforts as it relates to NIST 800-53.

Benefits

• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents, flexible paid time off for exempt staff and up to 10 days of vacation for non-exempt staff, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, One Medical membership, ClassPass credits, personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health, and other discounts and perks.
• We also take pride in offering exceptional food perks, with snacks, drip coffee, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge, and lunch subsidized as part of Vast's ongoing commitment to providing high-quality meals for employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees