Top Design Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design and develop ASIC, FPGA, and mixed digital systems for aerospace and defense programs. Responsibilities include requirements and architecture support, HDL/RTL development, simulation, debugging, synthesis, FPGA implementation, timing closure, CDC analysis, verification collaboration, integration, and system troubleshooting. Lead and Senior engineers provide technical leadership, subsystem ownership, mentoring, and cross-functional coordination.

Designs and supports ASIC, FPGA, and mixed digital systems for aerospace and defense programs. Responsibilities include requirements development, architecture support, HDL/RTL development, simulation, debugging, synthesis, FPGA implementation, timing analysis, verification collaboration, integration, troubleshooting, and technical status communication. The role may involve owning functional blocks, supporting subsystem efforts, and contributing to cross-functional technical leadership depending on experience level.

Designs and documents spacecraft payload mechanical structures and interiors using 3D CAD tools. Develops RF waveguide and cable routing, coordinates requirements across engineering groups, supports suppliers and manufacturing, assists with testing and production, and investigates anomalies and corrective actions. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo and requires U.S. Top Secret/SCI clearance eligibility and U.S. citizenship.

Design structural, payload, and MGSE components for space hardware using 3-D CAD (e.g., Creo). Develop, verify, and document designs, manage suppliers, support fabrication/integration/testing, ensure compliance with GD&T, safety, and producibility, and create tooling and assembly solutions for satellite platforms.

Design and deliver special test equipment for space-grade power, digital, RF and mixed-signal systems. Perform circuit design, prototyping, integration, automated test software development, verification/qualification testing, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and support proposal/capture activities. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and recommend test equipment procurement.

Design and develop mechanical systems, fixtures, enclosures, thermal solutions, and interfaces for space electronics test equipment. Create CAD models, manufacturing drawings, work instructions, BOMs, and release documentation. Perform structural, modal, thermal, and tolerance analyses; lead prototyping, fabrication, integration, testing, and troubleshooting. Collaborate with electrical engineers, support automated test system integration, evaluate vendors, and provide production and qualification support. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, with up to 10% domestic travel.

Leads multidisciplinary spacecraft structural and mechanical design integration from requirements through production support. Oversees design teams, system trades, payload accommodation, interface control, clearance verification, manufacturing integration, qualification testing, milestone reviews, nonconformance resolution, and emerging technology investigations. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, and requires U.S. person status, eligibility for a U.S. security clearance, and a Secret clearance post-start.

Leads mechanical design and systems integration for aerospace turbomachinery, heat transfer products, and environmental control systems. Develops manufacturable designs using Siemens NX, Teamcenter, GD&T, tolerance analysis, materials knowledge, and manufacturing-process expertise. Coordinates priorities with customers, supports supplier and production issue resolution, advances digital product definition, improves design processes through automation and AI-enabled methods, and mentors less-experienced designers.

Leads mechanical design and systems integration for aerospace turbomachinery, heat transfer, and environmental control products. Provides technical expertise across product design definition, customer proposals, supplier and production issue resolution, design-for-manufacturability, cost reduction, and digital engineering process improvements. Mentors designers, advances automation and design standards, and supports multiple commercial and military aircraft projects.

The Lead Design Engineer is responsible for Mechanical Flight Controls, ensuring safety and compliance with FAA regulations, providing design solutions, and collaborating across teams for aircraft safety and performance.

Design and support payloads and interior systems for out-of-production commercial aircraft. Lead COSP/SRP projects, review past designs, create solutions, interface with suppliers, support spares and service engineering, and produce CAD-based product definitions. Work under minimal direction and present findings to executive review.

Seeking a Senior Design Engineer for Mechanical Flight Controls, overseeing design solutions, compliance, and troubleshooting for aerospace projects.

Lead payload design engineering for out-of-production commercial aircraft interiors. Serve as responsible engineer on safety programs (COSP/SRP), create design solutions, run design reviews, support spares/service engineering, and provide 3-D CAD product definitions to suppliers and production.

Design and develop environmental control systems for aircraft. Responsibilities include creating and validating air and vapor cycle performance models, conducting thermodynamic, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics analyses, defining system requirements, optimizing system models, documenting results, integrating hardware and software, and performing system verification, validation, and testing. The role collaborates with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable, compliant aerospace solutions.

Design and develop digital circuitry for satellites, analyze performance, support testing, and maintain specifications while collaborating with various teams.

Design and develop advanced digital electronics hardware for aerospace applications, ensuring compliance to specifications and collaborating across teams.

Designs and integrates six-axis robotic manufacturing cells for government projects, including robot transporters, motion systems, end-of-arm tooling, CAD assemblies, manufacturing drawings, and structural validation. The role owns designs from customer requirements through deployment, selects components, maintains BOMs in PDM, manages suppliers and machine shops, ensures safety-standard compliance, prototypes hardware, mentors engineers, and supports customer-site validation.

Design Engineer will rapidly prototype and iterate mobile products (primarily iOS), build tooling and internal systems, collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers to drive product strategy, test with researchers, and ship polished experiences to hundreds of millions of users. Role involves presenting work to leadership and occasionally prototyping on web, AR, and AI platforms.

Design and develop primary and secondary flight structures and mechanisms for the Terran R rocket from concept through release. Create and release drawings with GD&T, perform packaging and tolerance stack analyses, optimize geometry for mass and manufacturability, support BOM and PLM configuration management, and coordinate closely with manufacturing to validate fabrication and assembly.

Design high-density PCBs for Snap Inc.'s Spectacles, collaborating with engineering teams on complex PCB layouts from prototype to production using Allegro PCB Designer.

Develop and execute ASIC, FPGA, and SoC design verification activities using simulation, SystemVerilog, UVM, coverage analysis, debugging, requirements traceability, reusable verification infrastructure, and UVCs. Support integration and system-level investigations, contribute to coverage closure, communicate risks and dependencies, and progressively own verification scope of moderate complexity. Level II engineers develop independence, while Level III engineers independently manage assigned verification scope.

Designs, develops, integrates, and validates automated test systems for space and defense electronics. Responsibilities include software architecture, instrument drivers, test sequencing, data acquisition, analysis, user interfaces, lab integration, troubleshooting, documentation, and build/test infrastructure. The role collaborates with hardware engineers and supports power, digital, RF, and mixed-signal systems using C#, LabVIEW, TestStand, Python, and MATLAB. This is a fully onsite position with up to 10% domestic travel and Top Secret/SCI clearance requirements.

Design and build polished web experiences across PSA products by partnering with design, product, and engineering. Ship production features, build rapid prototypes, maintain design systems, mentor engineers on design best practices, and elevate craft and consistency across the product ecosystem.

Designs and develops power, analog, and digital electronics for space-based applications. Responsibilities include circuit design, requirements definition, modeling, analysis, testing, verification, production support, technical performance tracking, and lifecycle engineering support. The engineer develops architectures and detailed specifications, investigates emerging technologies, validates designs, and mentors less experienced engineers. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, and requires U.S. person status and the ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Design and develop primary and secondary flight structures and mechanisms for the Terran R rocket from concept through release. Create CAD models and drawings, perform packaging and tolerance analyses, integrate DFM choices with manufacturing, manage BOMs and configuration in PLM, and support fabrication and release activities using NX/Teamcenter.