Top Aerospace Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Designs, implements, tests, integrates, verifies, validates, deploys, and maintains flight software for satellite vehicle management systems. Supports real-time and non-real-time software development, test planning, emerging technologies, debugging, and automated builds and testing within collaborative engineering teams. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, supports Boeing Defense Services programs, requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance, and includes a technical coding assessment.

Design and validate mechanical special test equipment for space electronics, including enclosures, fixtures, thermal systems, mounts, interfaces, and harness routing. Create CAD models, manufacturing drawings, work instructions, and release documentation. Perform structural, modal, thermal, and tolerance analyses; lead prototyping, fabrication, testing, troubleshooting, and production support. Collaborate with electrical engineers on PCB integration and automated test systems, evaluate COTS hardware and vendors, and track project schedules and costs.

Leads software systems engineering for SATCOM mission planning tools supporting space and ground systems. Responsibilities include requirements, architecture, API and backend development, frontend interfaces, integration, testing, deployment, code reviews, security, performance improvements, and technical mentoring. The role requires Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Agile and DevSecOps experience, an active U.S. Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and full-time onsite work in Seal Beach, California.

Leads complex engineering programs for electro-mechanical actuation systems from development through qualification and production transition. Responsibilities include defining scope, schedules, budgets, resources, and deliverables; managing EVM, risks, requirements, change control, and financial performance; leading proposals and cross-functional teams; and mentoring program managers. The role is based in Tempe, Arizona, on a hybrid schedule and supports aerospace, defense, and space customers.

Designs mechanical components and assemblies for heat transfer, turbomachinery, and systems applications. Creates 3D CAD models, engineering drawings, mechanical interfaces, and PLM release documentation. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams and customers to support fabrication, testing, and field applications. Develops Python-based automation scripts to improve design workflows and manages priorities across concurrent projects.

Own partnership strategy, development, negotiation, activation, and measurement across mission-aligned organizations, associations, and cultural brands. Manage partner relationships, co-marketing programs, sponsorships, events, budgets, deliverables, and performance reporting. Collaborate cross-functionally with Integrated Marketing, Events, Brand and Design, Product Marketing, and Audience Insights to expand reach, build cultural relevance, and support organizational objectives.

Design, analyze, test, and support manufacturing of primary and secondary rocket structures for Relativity Space’s Terran R vehicle. Responsibilities include developing structural concepts and load paths, sizing flight hardware, reviewing loads and material properties, releasing drawings, supporting hardware test campaigns, and improving manufacturability. The engineer will own designs through the full lifecycle from requirements to production while using CAD and structural analysis tools.

Lead Vantor’s sales and business development with the U.S. Space Force operational force. Own account strategy, pipeline, capture, forecasting, senior customer relationships, industry partnerships, and new-business pursuits. Drive adoption of spatial intelligence products as programs of record, navigate non-traditional acquisition pathways, influence requirements and product roadmaps, and lead pursuits exceeding $5 million. The role requires extensive USSF acquisition and technology-sales experience, an active TS clearance, and travel up to 50%.

Develops mission engineering threads, operational scenarios, and systems-of-systems assessments for integrated missile warning and tracking. Analyzes capability gaps, risks, requirements, dependencies, interfaces, and end-to-end kill chains across space sensors, ground systems, communications, data processing, and command-and-control architectures. Collaborates with Space Force, government, industry, and joint-service partners to improve mission integration and inform enterprise priorities.

Supports compensation decisions and programs through market pricing, salary analysis, internal equity reviews, compensation planning, job architecture, reporting, audits, and data governance. Partners with business leaders and People Business Partners on hiring, promotions, mobility, merit increases, and market adjustments. Maintains compensation data and systems, prepares models and reports, and identifies process improvements while ensuring consistent and equitable pay practices.

Own flight safety and mission design for reusable reentry vehicles, including trajectory simulations, Monte Carlo dispersion analyses, breakup and debris modeling, risk assessments, flight hazard areas, and recovery planning. Prepare FAA Part 450 licensing materials, lead regulator discussions, establish mission rules and go/no-go criteria, support live operations, and collaborate with GNC, aerothermal, structures, avionics, and reliability teams. Build and validate automated analysis tools and support customer and launch-provider mission studies.

Own and evolve a portable data platform infrastructure across commercial cloud, government cloud, and on-premises environments. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, security and compliance, observability, SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, backups, upgrades, deployment tooling, and runbooks. The role will establish SRE practices, support regulated customer deployments, collaborate with distributed systems engineers, and mentor a future SRE hire.

Lead end-to-end sourcing and procurement of complex industrial equipment, materials, processes, and facility upgrades. Translate engineering requirements into RFXs, evaluate technical and commercial proposals, identify risks, negotiate terms, execute purchase orders, and manage suppliers through delivery, testing, commissioning, and acceptance. Partner with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Supply Chain while building scalable procurement processes and supplier relationships in a fast-paced onsite manufacturing environment.

Architect and secure CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, software supply chains, and mission environments for flight and ground systems. The role owns build integrity, artifact signing, security gates, Terraform infrastructure in AWS GovCloud, environment isolation, vulnerability triage, logging, detection, and compliance evidence. It also supports secure spacecraft and ground-segment design, classified accreditation, and mission-critical reliability.