Top Aerospace Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Provides strategic legal counsel for buy-side commercial transactions and disputes. Negotiates technology, manufacturing, supplier, commodities, rocket component, and capital equipment agreements; advises on risk, financial terms, and executive alignment; develops scalable contract standards and negotiation playbooks; and manages post-contract disputes and execution risks.

Leads an avionics test engineering team responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and sustaining automated test systems for Terran R electronics. Owns manufacturing, acceptance, qualification, environmental, and integration testing while mentoring engineers and establishing best practices. Collaborates with hardware and software teams to troubleshoot complex electrical, software, and system-level issues across development and production environments.

Own and improve large-scale CNC machining operations for rocket structures. Introduce new products, establish machining work centers, define tooling and processes, create standardized work instructions, resolve shop-floor issues, and provide design-for-manufacturing feedback. The role requires collaboration across engineering, production, reliability, and vendors, along with expertise in CNC milling and turning, machine programming, setup, drafting, and manufacturing process improvement.

Analyze, clean, validate, and reconcile data to produce dashboards, reports, metrics, SQL queries, analytical datasets, and business insights. Partner with stakeholders to define requirements, investigate trends and anomalies, validate data models and workflows, improve data quality, and establish scalable analytics standards and documentation.

Lead Haven Station program operations, long-range planning, operational requirements, and strategic initiatives. Coordinate with Finance, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Facilities, and People teams to achieve headcount, capital expenditure, engineering asset, and program targets. Own program manifests, develop analytics and dashboards, report progress, manage cross-functional projects, and support product lifecycle scaling from development through production.

Lead and grow Ground Systems Software teams: hire, mentor, allocate staff, define scope, track program progress, and drive technical architecture, design reuse, process improvements, and best practices for satellite ground segment development and testing.

Leads complex international military aviation electronics and sustainment programs, managing cross-functional teams, budgets, forecasts, earned value, schedules, technical objectives, customer relationships, contracts, and new business initiatives. The role requires financial and operational accountability, proposal development, international customer engagement, regulatory compliance, and occasional domestic and international travel.

Own full-cycle technical recruiting, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer negotiation, onboarding, pipeline management, recruiting metrics, employer branding, and internship program development. Partner with leadership and hiring managers on hiring strategies, headcount planning, job descriptions, and interview processes while attracting engineering, product, hardware, and software talent.

Provides administrative support to senior management by managing calendars, meetings, travel arrangements, correspondence, presentations, records, files, and office supplies. The role requires strong organization, attention to detail, prioritization, and proficiency with Microsoft Office. Candidates must be U.S. persons due to export-control compliance. A bachelor’s degree and five or more years of administrative experience are valued.

Lead end-to-end flight software development for autonomous spacecraft, including mission operations tools, ground services, embedded vehicle software, telemetry, commanding, testing, simulation, and flight readiness. Collaborate with avionics, propulsion, GNC, and systems teams to define interfaces and data models. Support CI/CD, software- and hardware-in-the-loop testing, environmental testing, and flight campaigns in a fast-moving, on-site aerospace startup environment.

Leads Rangeview’s finance organization, capital strategy, financial planning, accounting, controls, and reporting. Structures debt, project finance, asset-based financing, and government capital programs for factory expansion. Owns financial models, cash forecasts, lender and board reporting, contract economics, budgets, audit readiness, and covenant compliance. Builds the accounting function, implements finance systems, hires the initial finance team, and supports government, lender, investor, and strategic transaction diligence.

Leads the optics department and owns the optical performance roadmap for current and future augmented reality systems. Responsibilities include team growth, optical architecture reviews, trade studies, metrology standards, design governance, supplier escalation, program execution, production transition, customer integration, and cross-functional alignment. The role establishes scalable processes, manages optical risks, supports defense and government programs, and partners with the Principal Optical Engineer to balance organizational leadership with technical execution.