Top Aerospace Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

The Industrial Security Specialist ensures compliance with security regulations, manages personnel and material security, conducts training, and develops security programs.

Lead contract actions including proposal development, negotiation, and contract administration for USG programs. Advise management on contractual rights, process contractual documentation, manage FAR/DFARS flowdowns, coordinate shipments/billing/DCMA interactions, prepare reports, and support export/license and proprietary agreement tasks.

Design, implement, integrate, test, and debug spacecraft dynamic models and interface software for real-time simulators and emulators. Support hardware/software integration, produce design and test documentation, collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, support STE testbeds, and provide simulation operation and maintenance support in an agile CI/CD environment.

Lead design and delivery of electrical ground support equipment, overseeing standardization, power architecture decisions, and mentoring engineers.

Leads cybersecurity compliance and AI governance across NIST, CMMC, EAR, and ITAR frameworks. Maintains SSPs, POA&Ms, audit evidence, risk assessments, and compliance policies; evaluates AI vendors and use cases; embeds guardrails, access controls, data classification, logging, and review gates into LLM, MLOps, and DevSecOps workflows. Partners with engineering, security, legal, assessors, and government stakeholders to mature organizational compliance and responsible AI practices.

Serves as technical authority and team leader for space-based interceptor tooling and mechanical ground support equipment. Responsibilities include requirements, CAD design, fabrication, qualification, vendor management, safety and regulatory compliance, configuration control, root-cause investigations, budgets, schedules, and production support. Leads tooling engineers, chairs design reviews, and presents to program leadership, MDA offices, and government stakeholders. Designs fixtures, lifting devices, launch equipment, transportation containers, weldments, and integration tooling while ensuring compliance with defense and aerospace standards.

Evaluate supplier performance, conduct audits and process verifications, lead corrective and preventive actions, and drive supplier quality improvement. Analyze defect and performance data, review technical documentation, support PPAP and structured problem-solving activities, and collaborate with Engineering, Supply Chain, and Program Quality teams. The role focuses on supplier compliance, risk mitigation, continuous improvement, and zero-defect manufacturing across interconnect components and processes.

Own and architect a space-based storage platform spanning Linux kernel drivers, NVMe recovery, ZFS pool design, NFS serving, and automated fault recovery. Develop radiation-resilient storage systems, reliability models, fault-injection tests, and integration between drivers and filesystems. Prototype on commodity hardware, validate sustained high-throughput operation, and carry the architecture through platform integration and launch.

Plans, authors, and executes component-level integration tests for aerospace engine subassemblies, including mechanical, fluid, electrical, pneumatic, and avionics systems. Coordinates test readiness, configuration verification, ground support equipment, instrumentation, and pre-test walkdowns. Identifies hazards, applies safety and risk mitigation practices, troubleshoots issues with Engineering and Production, and improves test integration processes. The role requires hands-on aerospace or complex systems testing experience and detailed test procedure expertise.

Provide high-level administrative support to the CEO and President, including calendar and inbox management, travel booking, briefing materials, meeting logistics, document editing, expense reporting, reception support, and handling sensitive information. Anticipate needs, track follow-ups, and be available outside standard hours for urgent tasks.

Designs and integrates complex mechanical systems, supports architecture trade studies, and develops, validates, and verifies system requirements. The role creates verification and qualification plans, coordinates component and analysis teams, presents technical findings, oversees testing, and maintains traceable technical documentation. It requires aerospace systems engineering expertise, knowledge of mechanical and thermal disciplines, requirements management tools, Model-Based Systems Engineering, and environmental testing experience. The position is hybrid in Torrance, California, with no relocation offered.

Leads Vantor’s AI-assisted software engineering strategy and transformation. Designs and prototypes agentic workflows for coding, testing, documentation, code review, and automation; evaluates tools; establishes secure governance; runs pilots; builds adoption networks; measures productivity, quality, risk, and business value; and translates evidence into executive recommendations, roadmaps, and scalable operating patterns.

Lead electrical architecture, design, test, integration, and manufacturing for next-generation AR airborne systems. Derive subsystem requirements, perform trade studies, prototype and verify designs, produce documentation, mentor the electrical team, and ensure compliance with military environmental and EMI/EMC standards.

Build and maintain governed Silver/Gold data models and semantic assets on Databricks. Translate stakeholder KPIs into testable, reusable transformations, apply enterprise modeling standards, enable domain self-service, ensure data sensitivity and governance, and review domain-contributed models for production readiness.

Lead development of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems from concept to flight-ready software. Design and simulate algorithms, translate requirements into embedded implementations, support HIL and flight test, analyze test data, coordinate across vehicle design, avionics, structures and testing, and document results while mitigating technical risk.