Top Design Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

The role involves designing and developing tools and automation solutions for manufacturing rockets, collaborating with various teams to ensure successful project completion and integration.

The role involves designing and developing tooling and factory automation solutions for the manufacturing of rockets, with a focus on innovation and collaboration across engineering teams.

Design and verify digital integrated circuits, including processor architectures, memory-management units, multicore systems, and cache systems. Responsibilities include defining specifications, analyzing architecture trade-offs, participating in design reviews, supervising IC layouts, developing behavioral models, characterizing prototypes, and coordinating product testing and releases. The program also provides exposure to design verification and analog design through training and on-the-job projects.

Design custom industrial machinery, automation equipment, robotic tooling, fixtures, and mechanical systems from concept through commissioning. Create CAD models, manufacturing drawings, bills of materials, and engineering documentation using GD&T and design-for-manufacturing principles. Support fabrication, machining, welding, assembly, prototyping, testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement while collaborating with manufacturing, controls, suppliers, project management, and technicians.

The Design Engineer - Mechanical Systems designs, develops, and verifies helicopter mechanical systems, ensuring safety, weight, and cost objectives are met.

The Design Engineer - Airframe designs, develops, and verifies helicopter airframe structures, ensuring safety, weight, and cost objectives are met through various analysis and testing stages.

Design and redesign precision components for semiconductor fabrication equipment, leveraging additive manufacturing to create novel geometries. Own concepts through feasibility, materials and tolerance analysis, and production considerations. Collaborate with internal teams and customer engineering to qualify hardware, identify new application spaces, and inform product and process roadmaps.

Design hardware for a propulsion system, own mechanical designs, manage vendors, validate designs, and conduct testing for satellite propulsion.

Lead mechanical process design for water and wastewater projects: develop basis of design, equipment sizing/selection, construction documents, specifications, hydraulic analyses, cost estimates, discipline coordination, project management, business development, mentoring, and quality control.

Design machines using SolidWorks for a customer engagement. This fully remote contract is expected to last three months, with potential extension. Candidates should have at least two years of SolidWorks experience and be at an intermediate level or higher.

Develop and scale manufacturing processes for complex electromechanical hardware through high-volume production. Lead DFM/DFA, tooling, fixtures, assembly equipment, automation, manufacturing readiness, validation, and production ramp activities. Analyze yield, quality, throughput, cycle time, and OEE using data-driven methods, while applying SPC, DOE, tolerance analysis, and root-cause problem solving. Collaborate with design, test, quality, supply chain, and operations teams to deliver scalable product launches.

Design, prototype, analyze, and test aerospace rocket and missile structures, mechanisms, electromechanical hardware, and vehicle components. Own products from concept through integrated testing and manufacturing, perform hand calculations and computational analysis, optimize designs for harsh environmental and dynamic conditions, iterate manufacturing and testing processes, and lead reviews and trade studies with internal teams, suppliers, and customers.

The Electrical Design Engineer will be involved in mixed signal design and testing, specifically in the aerospace domain, requiring both analog and digital design skills.

The role involves designing, analyzing, and integrating propulsion systems, managing prototype builds, and collaborating across teams for hardware development.

The Senior Mechanical Design Engineer designs space-rated mechanisms, prototypes, and testing, ensuring functionality, performance, and manufacturability in a fast-paced startup environment.

The Senior FPGA Design Engineer collaborates on designing signal processing algorithms for MIMO wireless systems and supports FPGA-based system development.

Design and own primary and secondary structures, mechanisms, and fluid systems for SpaceX’s Starfall re-entry vehicle. Perform hand calculations, FEA, and CAD to validate hardware, lead design reviews and qualifications, coordinate with suppliers and internal teams, and manage hardware through design, fabrication, testing, launch, and reuse.

Designs and integrates multi-layer insulation for spacecraft, creating CAD models, fabrication templates, installation drawings, and procedures. Coordinates fabrication and installation across unit, subsystem, and system levels, supports launch activities, interfaces with multidisciplinary teams, and serves as the technical contact for thermal products programs. Requires flexibility for extended hours, alternate shifts, weekends, and travel.

Designs and integrates multi-layer insulation for spacecraft, including CAD modeling, fabrication templates, installation drawings, procedures, and flight hardware installation. Coordinates fabrication and multidisciplinary engineering activities, serves as the thermal products technical representative, supports launch operations, and participates in spacecraft integration and testing. Requires flexibility for extended hours, alternate shifts, weekends, and travel.

Own all aspects of the Deneb propulsion system from concept to product realization: design engine components and layouts, create detailed CAD models and manufacturing drawings, perform fluid/thermal/structural analysis, coordinate procurement/fabrication/assembly, and resolve technical issues to enable flight hardware.

Design and validate multi-layer mixed-signal PCBs and wiring harnesses for MANET radios. Perform component selection, schematic capture, PCB stack-up and rule definition, hardware bring-up, testing, and root-cause analysis. Collaborate with PCB designers, software, FPGA, and RF teams to ensure EMI control and manufacturability.

Design, develop, integrate, and test circuit cards and electronics hardware for spacecraft and aerospace systems. Own schematic capture, PCB layout, bring-up, debugging, component selection, and validation. Support signal/power integrity, EMI/EMC, thermal and environmental considerations, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive hardware through prototype to production.

Supports on-time delivery of parametric 3D CAD models and engineering drawings for virtual tire development, performance analysis, and mold tooling. Develops equation- and logic-driven PTC Creo models, collaborates with cross-functional teams to analyze and predict tire tread performance using in-house tools and FEA software, and helps improve modeling best practices. The role includes structured training, mentorship, and opportunities to develop advanced Creo expertise.

Design and develop high-power switching power supplies (10–30 kW) and liquid-cooled backup systems for data centers. Perform detailed electrical design, hands-on prototyping, and rapid product development in a fast-paced environment while communicating clearly with team and stakeholders.

Lead a small ME team to develop customer-facing electromechanical and electronics features from concept through prototype, validation, production release, and sustaining. Design HMI and consumer-electronics style components, integrate with other systems, perform bring-up and reliability testing, rapid prototyping, and support field failure analysis and production ramp.