Top Aerospace Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Own full-cycle recruiting for engineering, technical, and business roles, including sourcing, candidate screening, interview coordination, offer support, pipeline reporting, and candidate communications. Partner with hiring managers to define requirements and hiring strategies, build passive-candidate pipelines, and improve recruiting processes. The role is fully onsite in Torrance, California and requires U.S. citizenship.

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.

Supports astrodynamics, orbit, trajectory, and spacecraft maneuver analyses across mission lifecycles. Responsibilities include assessing requirements, optimizing trajectories, evaluating sensors and constellation designs, supporting system analysis, and developing mission operations tools. The role requires modeling and simulation experience, orbital analysis software proficiency, scientific computing skills, and eligibility for a U.S. security clearance. It is 100% onsite and supports national security space missions.

The Autonomy Engineer leads fault management and autonomy for satellites, defining architectures and requirements while ensuring mission success and spacecraft safety.

Designs, analyzes, integrates, and sustains aircraft mechanical systems, primarily C-17 Environmental Control Systems. Responsibilities include developing drawings and specifications, supporting reviews, resolving field issues through root cause analysis, coordinating suppliers, communicating with Air Force customers, mentoring engineers, and leading small teams. The role requires occasional travel to supply chain locations and military bases.

Owns end-to-end thermal control system test campaigns for human-rated space station hardware, including test planning, GSE design, assembly, instrumentation, execution, data analysis, and closeout. Performs hands-on testing of fluid and thermal components, resolves technical issues through root-cause analysis, supports design and test reviews, collaborates with engineering and manufacturing teams, and mentors junior engineers.

Leads electrical and systems engineering projects for electric aircraft and eVTOL systems. Designs and develops electrical circuits, components, and high-power inverter electronics; performs feasibility studies, simulations, testing, troubleshooting, fault isolation, and compliance analysis. Manages project budgets, timelines, and resources while providing technical leadership. Produces BOMs, investigation reports, white papers, and board-level design changes, collaborating with cross-functional aerospace teams.

Leads materials and process engineering for hybrid aerospace manufacturing. Encodes metallurgy, process windows, material models, and manufacturability constraints into DFM systems. Develops WAAM, directed energy deposition, CNC, and hybrid process guidance; characterizes microstructure, defects, stresses, and properties; and conducts hands-on validation through coupons, testing, heat treatment, NDE, and metallography. Owns qualification plans and design allowables aligned with NAVSEA and MMPDS requirements while collaborating with software, design, production, quality, and suppliers.

Owns welding processes, materials, specifications, qualification campaigns, inspection plans, equipment, and production support for spacecraft flight and ground hardware. Designs and improves weld joints, interprets mechanical and NDE results, maintains procedures and welder qualifications, supports new-product introduction and first builds, resolves production nonconformances, and drives improvements in manufacturing rate, quality, and cost. Provides technical leadership and mentorship while partnering with design and quality engineering teams.

Designs and manages complex multilayer avionics PCBs, including component libraries, placement, routing, fabrication and assembly drawings. Develops design standards and review checklists, manages software licenses, and coordinates PCB procurement with vendors. Collaborates with avionics, mechanical, and operations teams while owning PCB design outcomes for aerospace vehicles and ground support equipment.

Own Revel’s merchandise and swag program from concept through production and fulfillment. Design apparel, physical goods, event materials, gifting kits, and supporting digital assets while maintaining brand consistency. Manage vendors, print-ready files, samples, quality, budgets, and timelines. Collaborate with brand and product design teams, contribute to motion and video treatments, and use performance insights to guide future merchandise.

Develop and maintain model-based systems engineering architectures for a U.S. Space Force system-of-systems enterprise. Use Cameo and related digital engineering tools to manage requirements, traceability, system models, technical specifications, and architecture. Support integration, testing, deployment, sustainment, risk mitigation, and lifecycle planning. Maintain technical documentation and repositories, collaborate with government and contractor stakeholders, and produce engineering reports and decision-support materials.

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.