What Vast is hiring right now
Open roles read straight from the applicant tracking system on Vast's own career page, not from a job board. Counted daily, so the direction is visible as well as the number.
| Open roles | 164 |
| Departments | 38 |
| Countries | 1 |
| Flagged remote by the employer | 0 (0%) |
| Posted in the last 30 days | 68 |
| Median age of an open role | 37 days |
| Roles first seen in the last 14 days | 23 |
| Roles we have seen close | 33 |
Where the hiring sits: Engineering - Avionics (13), Engineering - Structures (12), E-2 (11), Manufacturing - Integration (9), Manufacturing - Avionics (9).
Where the roles sit: Long Beach, California, United States (145), Hawthorne, California, United States (9), Mojave, California, United States (7), Washington, District of Columbia, United States (2).
Countries with the most openings: United States (164).
The roles posted most recently
| Role | Where | Posted |
|---|---|---|
| Manager, Thermal Control Systems | Long Beach, California, United States | 2026-08-19 |
| Senior Components Technician | Long Beach, California, United States | 2026-08-19 |
| Integration Technician I | Long Beach, California, United States | 2026-08-19 |
| Senior Test Engineer, Thermal Control Systems | Long Beach, California, United States | 2026-08-19 |
| Senior Mechanical Engineer, Lunar | Long Beach, California, United States | 2026-08-19 |
| Manufacturing Engineer - Factory Systems & Rate Production | Long Beach, California, United States | 2026-08-17 |
These are the six most recent of 164, as Vast published them. The wording is the employer's own; we do not rewrite a job title any more than we rewrite a filing.
Why the count alone says little
A large company always has hundreds of open roles. What carries information is which way that number moves, and which departments it moves in. We record both openings and closures, so a role disappearing from Vast's careers page is a recorded event rather than a silent absence.
Half of these roles have been open for more than 37 days. A long median is not by itself a sign of trouble - some roles are hard to fill and some boards are simply pruned rarely - but it does mean the headline count says less about this month than it appears to.
Being straight about what this is
Not advice, and not a complete picture. This is one company's own careers page. It says nothing about revenue, headcount or plans, and we do not claim otherwise.
A short observation window. We started recording opens and closes on this set in August 2026, so "what changed" is weeks deep and grows daily. The posting dates above come from the employer and reach back further than our own record.
Refreshed once a night, read from eight applicant tracking systems. No salary fields and no candidate data: they are not in the source.
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