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Vast Systems Engineer Salary

Vast's 10 open roles for systems engineers post a median $159k/yr, typically $141k–$232k/yr, from 10 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 systems engineers: 13% above it
Systems engineers at every space company
median $152k/yr
Vast: 5% above it
Highest posted top
$249k/yr
Senior System Architect, Lunar

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 systems engineer pay by level

Level the title namesOpen rolesMedianTypical pay
Senior2Too few figures
Title names no level8$147k/yr$140k–$230k/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.

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 00:03 UTC

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Questions about Vast pay for systems engineers

How much does Vast pay systems engineers?

Vast's open roles for systems engineers post a median $159k/yr, typically $141k–$232k/yr, from 10 distinct pay figures in 10 of its 10 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 $249k/yr, for Senior System Architect, Lunar.

Does Vast pay systems engineers more than other space companies?

Vast's median, $159k/yr, is 5% above the $152k/yr median of the 1,199 open roles for systems engineers at every space company we read (Vast's among them).

Do systems engineers earn more than other roles at Vast?

Vast's roles for systems engineers post a median $159k/yr, 13% above the $141k/yr median of all its open roles that state pay (Vast salaries compares every kind of work).

Where does Vast hire systems engineers?

Its open roles for systems engineers are in Long Beach, CA (10).