Incremental development
Break complex space infrastructure into tangible missions, learn from what flies and carry that knowledge into what comes next.
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Careers at Vast
Build the future of life in space.
Bring your aerospace experience to the team building next-generation space stations. Join 1,000+ experts turning ambitious systems into flight-ready hardware.
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Experienced aerospace and space-industry talent
Hardware-rich
Build and test real systems
In-house
Design through validation
Orbital focus
Infrastructure for life in space
How Vast builds
A mission built for doers.
Vast turns ambitious space infrastructure into flight hardware through ownership, speed and rigorous testing—not distance from the work.
Explore the Vast roadmapHardware-rich execution
Build early, test rigorously and keep teams close to the hardware. Engineers can turn complex ideas into operational systems.
Low-cost approach
Make disciplined choices that preserve speed and focus resources on hardware, testing and mission outcomes.
Close to the work
From drawing board to test stand, in-house.
Vast designs, manufactures and tests many critical systems at its Long Beach headquarters—giving teams direct ownership of the hardware they help create.
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Built side by side
The people who design the systems stay close to the people who build and test them.
People at Vast
1,000+ experts.
One shared horizon.
Experienced teams work across spacecraft, structures, propulsion, avionics, manufacturing, testing, and mission operations—bringing deep expertise into the same hands-on development cycle.
DesignSpacecraft · Structures
SystemsPropulsion · Avionics
ExecutionManufacturing · Testing · Mission operations
Join 1,000+ experts creating the future of life in space.
Meet the TeamFlight-proven progress
Engineering that
reaches orbit.
Follow the hardware milestones behind Vast’s incremental path from an operational spacecraft to the next generation of commercial space stations.
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Mission success
Haven Demo becomes power positive
Haven Demo achieved mission success and became power positive after deploying its solar array.
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Operational proof
A commercial spacecraft operated in orbit
Vast is the only operational commercial space station company to have flown and operated its own spacecraft in orbit.
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Built now
A U.S. station flight article returns
The Haven-1 primary structure is the first U.S.-built space station flight article in over 20 years.
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Targeted for 2027
Haven-1 moves toward launch
Haven-1, Vast’s commercial space station, is targeted to launch in 2027.
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What comes next
Haven-2 looks beyond the ISS
Haven-2 is designed to succeed the International Space Station.
Explore Haven-2Growth at Vast
Grow where the work is unprecedented.
Build rare expertise while solving consequential engineering challenges—close to the hardware, the people, and every decision that moves a system toward flight.
Flight hardware
Work on what flies
Build experience directly on flight hardware—not a distant abstraction of it. Your work connects to physical systems built for space.
Integrated systems
Expand beyond one discipline
Deepen your specialty while seeing how tightly integrated structures, power, propulsion, and human-rated systems come together.
Experienced peers
Learn beside space professionals
Solve hard problems alongside experienced aerospace and space-industry talent, with the technical context close at hand.
Meaningful ownership
Own the full hardware arc
Carry meaningful responsibility from design through manufacture and test. Vast keeps many critical systems in-house at its Long Beach headquarters.
Your technical range can grow with the mission
One team. Three frontiers of space infrastructure.
Commercial space stations
High-power satellite buses
In-house Hall thrusters based on NASA JPL-licensed technology
Bring proven aerospace experience. Leave with a broader view of how next-generation space infrastructure gets built.
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Six workplaces.
One mission.
Find your place across Vast’s growing network of teams—each contributing to the future of life in space.
HeadquartersLong Beach
Where critical systems become flight hardware.
At Vast’s Long Beach headquarters, many critical systems are designed, manufactured, and tested in-house—bringing engineering decisions close to the hardware.
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Careers at Vast
Find your next mission at Vast.
Explore work across engineering, operations, and space systems—then check Vast’s live careers board for today’s openings.
Opportunity guide
Bring deep experience to hardware that has to work in orbit.
Vast designs, manufactures, and tests many critical systems in-house. Openings change as programs advance, so the official careers listing is always the source of truth.
Live careers signal
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Multiple Vast workplaces
Availability changes.Titles, disciplines, and locations shown on Vast’s careers site reflect the current recruiting need.
Your next mission at Vast
Your experience can shape what comes after the ISS.
Bring your aerospace and space-industry expertise to consequential, hardware-led work on Haven-1, Haven-2, and the infrastructure that follows.
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Share your experience and the kind of mission you want to build.
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