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Vast Manufacturing Engineer Salary

Vast's 14 open roles for manufacturing engineers post a median $141k/yr, typically $141k–$220k/yr, from 14 distinct pay figures, read from its own job board every hour.

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Against other pay

Every Vast role
median $141k/yr
Vast's manufacturing engineers: level with it
Manufacturing engineers at every space company
median $137k/yr
Vast: 3% above it
Highest posted top
$245k/yr
Avionics Manufacturing Engineer, Solar Array

Typical pay is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top. Pay is compared as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours (40 a week for 52 weeks), a weekly one at 52 weeks, a monthly one at 12 months. A posting that names only a ceiling ("up to $X") is left out of the figures.

Vast manufacturing engineer pay by level

Level the title namesOpen rolesMedianTypical pay
Entry, associate or level I1Too few figures
Level II1Too few figures
Senior2Too few figures
Title names no level10$141k/yr$141k–$232k/yr

A level is read from the title, the first that applies from an internship to a director (the reading of our research on career levels and pay). A figure needs three distinct posted rates.

Where Vast hires manufacturing engineers

Open Vast roles for manufacturing engineers, highest pay first

Updated 31 Oct 2026, 07:01 UTC

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Questions about Vast pay for manufacturing engineers

How much does Vast pay manufacturing engineers?

Vast's open roles for manufacturing engineers post a median $141k/yr, typically $141k–$220k/yr, from 14 distinct pay figures in 14 of its 14 postings. Typical pay here is the 25th percentile of what roles pay (the middle of each posted range, as a year's pay: an hourly rate counts at 2,080 hours, 40 a week for 52 weeks) to the 90th-percentile posted top. The highest posted top is $245k/yr, for Avionics Manufacturing Engineer, Solar Array.

Does Vast pay manufacturing engineers more than other space companies?

Vast's median, $141k/yr, is 3% above the $137k/yr median of the 890 open roles for manufacturing engineers at every space company we read (Vast's among them).

Do manufacturing engineers earn more than other roles at Vast?

Vast's roles for manufacturing engineers post a median $141k/yr, level with the $141k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (Vast salaries compares every kind of work).

Where does Vast hire manufacturing engineers?

Its open roles for manufacturing engineers are in Long Beach, CA (13) and Hawthorne, CA (1).