Top Aerospace Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design and implement ASICs for mission-critical aerospace and space applications. Responsibilities include synthesis, static timing analysis, timing constraint management, floorplanning, power and timing convergence, equivalence checking, ECOs, chip integration, signoff, tapeout, and automation. The role collaborates with RTL, verification, DFT, architecture, and external backend teams while troubleshooting cross-domain timing issues and improving physical design methodologies.

Designs, integrates, verifies, and tests satellite ground systems. Develops requirements, interface documents, architecture, test plans, and reports. Performs system analyses for reliability, safety, maintainability, security, and affordability. Works in agile teams, mentors staff, and supports requirements management, system integration, verification, and customer delivery to ensure mission success.

Leads project execution for spacecraft antenna subsystem and passive microwave device programs from proposal through flight delivery. Develops integrated plans and schedules, manages earned value, risks, opportunities, baselines, changes, estimates, and stakeholder commitments. Coordinates cross-functional teams and suppliers to deliver hardware on time and within budget. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a Top Secret/SCI clearance, and includes up to 25% domestic travel.

Design, analyze, build, and test propulsion systems for advanced satellites and missile defense vehicles from concept through flight. Lead propulsion development and ground test campaigns, review models and drawings, collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams, optimize system performance and manufacturability, and mentor engineers. The role requires expertise in rocket engines, valves, fluid systems, pressurization, propulsion testing, and vehicle-level checkouts, with occasional vendor and factory travel.

Design, analyze, build, and test propulsion systems for advanced spacecraft from concept through flight. Provide technical leadership and mentorship, review models and drawings, lead multidisciplinary design validation, support propulsion testing and vehicle checkouts, and present technical content to customers. The role requires extensive launch or space vehicle experience, fluid system expertise, and the ability to lead complex propulsion development in a fast-paced environment.

Leads the full lifecycle design and development of liquid rocket combustion devices, including injectors, thrust chambers, regenerative cooling circuits, nozzles, and acoustic stability features. Performs combustion, thermal, structural, and performance analysis; applies additive manufacturing and high-temperature materials; reviews CAD and GD&T drawings; interprets test data; supports build, integration, qualification, and flight delivery; and mentors engineers.

Leads factory testing projects and initiatives for rocket components, troubleshooting complex issues, overseeing technical work, mentoring technicians, and collaborating with engineering and leadership on new hardware, processes, and testing procedures. The role operates on a second shift with a 50-hour workweek, including guaranteed overtime and a shift differential.

Manage a team of vehicle test engineers and own production test deliverables for rocket stage integration. Lead vehicle and subsystem checkout operations, including fluid leak checks, low- and high-voltage checkouts, and functional verification. Develop test standards, infrastructure roadmaps, automated frameworks, test plans, data processes, operator training, and continuous-improvement initiatives. Partner with systems engineering, manufacturing, production, and program leadership to improve cycle time, quality, readiness, and schedule alignment.

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.

Support and lead hardware integration, build, and test operations for human-rated space station systems. Plan and run tests, coordinate technicians and engineers, document and resolve non-conformances, refine manufacturing processes, and provide go/no-go decisions to keep production and testing on schedule.

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.

Develops NC programs and leads advanced machining and manufacturing process optimization at Honeywell Aerospace. Responsibilities include improving production workflows, analyzing manufacturing data, implementing continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring safety and quality compliance, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring employees. The role requires expertise in NX, Vericut, GD&T, lean manufacturing, statistical process control, and programming multi-axis mills and lathes for aerospace components.

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.

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.

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.