Staff Product Security Engineer

Vast • Long Beach, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

At Vast, the mission is to contribute to a future where billions of people are living and thriving in space by developing next-generation space stations. Vast is rapidly developing its multi-module Haven Station, with Haven Demo’s 2025 success making it the only operational commercial space station company to fly and operate its own spacecraft. 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. The team is all-in, committed to executing its mission safely and on time. Vast is looking for a Staff 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

• Company equity
• 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents
• Generous paid time off; up to 20+ days of vacation for exempt staff and up to 10+ days of vacation for non-exempt staff with the ability to cash-out unused vacation annually
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
• ClassPass credits
• Personalized mental healthcare through Spring Health
• Other discounts and perks
• Exceptional food perks, with snacks, drip coffee & onsite barista, cold drinks, and dinner meals remaining free of charge
• 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: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees