Top Aerospace Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead mission modeling and simulation for first-of-kind space vehicles and missions. Develop physics-based simulations, perform system trade studies, apply astrodynamics and flight mechanics to mission design, and support trajectory optimization. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, customers, and subject matter experts to develop concepts of operations and achievable solutions. Create review materials, identify inefficiencies, and implement reusable tools and automations.

Designs, delivers, and leads the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls subsystem for small satellite programs. Responsibilities include GNC design and analysis, flight control software development and verification, sensor/actuator selection, interfacing with systems and program teams, managing cost/schedule/risk, supporting satellite integration, test, and on-orbit operations, and providing technical leadership and mentorship as the REA for program GNC delivery.

Leads cross-functional electronics hardware projects, managing integrated cost, schedule, technical, risk, and earned value plans. Maintains project baselines, forecasts, schedules, status reports, and variance analyses; coordinates engineering, operations, suppliers, and program teams. Facilitates reviews, resolves issues, manages resources and subcontract statements of work, supports production planning, and drives project delivery, sell-offs, closeout, and lessons learned. The role is fully onsite and supports defense and space electronics programs.

The Proposal and Capture Strategist leads proposal development for government solicitation processes, managing teams to craft compelling proposals while navigating complex requirements and multiple stakeholders for large contracts.

Owns mechanical and structural design, packaging, analysis, testing, and validation of secondary avionics structures for the Terran R rocket. Provides technical direction, approves designs and analyses, makes architecture-level tradeoffs, and leads cross-functional integration across avionics, fluids, dynamics, thermal, structures, and vehicle integration teams. Ensures hardware meets static, dynamic, and thermal flight environments while balancing mission requirements, producibility, schedule, and cost.

Develop and integrate Terran R vehicle build processes across the lifecycle. Own verification activities for integration, testing, and launch-site checkouts; support qualification, acceptance, and hotfire campaigns; write test objectives, matrices, and plans; resolve off-nominal manufacturing challenges; and balance technical, cost, schedule, performance, reliability, and launch-rate constraints. Collaborate across mechanical, fluids, avionics, manufacturing, and other engineering teams, with possible travel and shifted schedules for critical milestones.

Owns end-to-end stage test campaigns for Terran R, including test planning, sequence development, hardware operations, data review, console operations, troubleshooting, requirements decomposition, verification, and risk mitigation. The role integrates vehicle subsystems across qualification, acceptance, hotfire, launch, recovery, and reuse activities. It requires cross-functional collaboration across mechanical, fluids, electrical, manufacturing, and aerospace engineering teams, along with travel to test and launch sites and flexibility during critical milestones.

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.

Supports certification planning and execution for Haven human-rated spacecraft. Responsibilities include tracking certification requirements and artifacts, maintaining verification status, coordinating across engineering and mission teams, developing verification plans and compliance documentation, participating in testing and demonstrations, identifying certification risks, and preparing evidence packages for certification milestones.

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.

Lead Revel’s graphic design team, shaping and evolving its brand identity across digital, product, print, events, and physical merchandise. Responsibilities include managing and mentoring designers, establishing creative workflows, providing critiques, setting visual direction, simplifying complex technical concepts into compelling visuals, and collaborating with marketing, sales, product designers, and engineers. The role combines strategic brand leadership with hands-on design execution in a technical, high-growth 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.

Own aerothermal environment definition for a reusable Earth-return vehicle across its flight envelope. Run high-enthalpy CFD, engineering heating methods, and custom solver extensions; integrate CFD, test data, and uncertainty margins into databases supporting TPS, structures, and trajectory design. Validate methods through analytical, wind tunnel, arc-jet, and flight data, automate environment delivery, and manage computing resources.