Top Aerospace Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

As a Mechanical CAD Drafter, you will create precise drawings for spacecraft components, ensuring compliance with engineering standards and collaborating with engineering teams for documentation and quality assurance.

As a Technical Recruiter, you will manage the full-cycle recruiting process, source technical talent, and enhance the candidate experience while partnering with teams across the organization.

Manage inbound and outbound logistics, dock operations, freight coordination, inventory movement, picking, kitting, and line-side delivery for rocket manufacturing. Partner cross-functionally to ensure accurate, timely material flow; establish logistics KPIs; reduce transportation costs; and lead continuous improvement initiatives involving material pull systems and value stream mapping. The role also requires ERP-based materials transactions, people leadership, and expertise in receiving and material handling operations.

Build and maintain frontend platform capabilities for a unified rocket-factory operator UI. Develop React and TypeScript modules, shared components, design-system integrations, and real-time telemetry interfaces. Migrate features from separate frontends, optimize live-data rendering performance, contribute to code reviews, and collaborate with senior engineers on architecture. The role supports industrial automation and launch operations software.

Supports enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructure across multiple classifications. Installs, configures, troubleshoots, maintains, and upgrades Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, and Foundry network equipment. Resolves incidents, implements network changes, supports Tier III engineers, maintains topology and asset records, coordinates repairs and upgrades, and performs Layer 1–3 networking tasks. Requires strong routing, switching, firewall, ITSM, documentation, communication, and problem-solving skills, with up to 20% travel and flexible weekend support.

Leads turbomachinery engineering strategy, design, analysis, testing, and modeling initiatives. Provides technical guidance, manages engineers, establishes design goals and metrics, optimizes product performance and reliability, and mitigates design risks throughout the product lifecycle. Collaborates cross-functionally, manages complex engineering projects, and applies industry advancements to drive innovation. The position is hybrid in Torrance, California, with no relocation offered.

Leads logistics analytics and systems projects across transportation, warehousing, inventory, and integrated supply chain operations. Translates operational problems into process, data, and system improvements; partners with logistics, IT, finance, and external providers; develops SQL analyses, Tableau dashboards, and Python automation; manages requirements, testing, adoption, governance, and benefits tracking; and measures cost, service, productivity, inventory, and data-quality outcomes.

Leads U.S. import and Foreign-Trade Zone compliance, manages import compliance professionals, oversees customs entries, inventories, audits, reconciliations, and CBP interactions. Develops trade compliance policies, supports tariff mitigation strategies, resolves import issues, trains stakeholders, monitors regulatory changes, and implements corrective actions. The role requires extensive trade compliance experience, strong knowledge of customs, export controls, and sanctions, plus experience managing compliance programs and audits.

Leads the thermal control systems manufacturing engineering team for spacecraft hardware. Owns manufacturing development, production readiness, build execution, schedules, work instructions, inspection plans, process qualification, and nonconformance resolution. Partners with design, quality, supply chain, technicians, and integration teams to manufacture pumps, fluid loops, coldplates, heaters, and tubing. Mentors engineers, supports hiring, drives design for manufacturability, supplier readiness, root-cause corrective actions, and successful hardware integration.

Own full-cycle recruiting for technical hardware and software roles: sourcing, screening, structured interviews, offers, and pre-onboarding. Partner with engineering and operations to forecast headcount, build pipelines, maintain ATS processes, ensure export-control compliance, calibrate compensation, and track hiring metrics. Support non-technical hires and campus/event outreach as needed.

Designs, analyzes, documents, and tests mechanical, fluid, and thermal systems for satellite programs. Responsibilities include detailed system and component design, spatial integration, mechanisms and landing gear modification, technical documentation, proposal support, lab testing, technical data analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The role is performed onsite under general supervision and requires eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.

Defines and evolves software architectures for AR-based aerospace and mission systems. Leads architecture across embedded, real-time graphics, simulation, networking, cloud, edge, AI/ML, and aircraft integration. Establishes standards for secure, scalable, safety-critical software; supports DO-178 compliance, DevSecOps, CI/CD, containerization, and digital engineering. Collaborates with engineering, product, systems, and program teams on technical baselines, interfaces, verification, customer engagements, and proposals.

Develop and mature R&D manufacturing processes from technical demonstration through production transfer. Responsibilities include designing experiments, analyzing process variation, establishing operating windows and controls, qualifying measurement methods, conducting risk assessments and FMEAs, documenting procedures, and supporting validation, training, and initial production. The role focuses on achieving repeatability, yield, capability, throughput, cycle time, cost, and commercial practicality in collaboration with R&D, equipment engineering, mechatronics, and production teams.

Own a core Revel platform area from conception through launch. Develop product vision and roadmaps, identify user needs and market opportunities, write product requirements, define milestones, coordinate engineers, and align stakeholders. Work directly with leadership and customers, use real hardware configurations and test data, and ship products for technical users in complex hardware environments.