Top Design Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Designs and develops aerospace subsystems including avionics, control surfaces, propulsion interfaces, and environmental systems. Translates system requirements into specifications, interfaces, drawings, and bills of materials; performs engineering analyses, simulations, trade studies, and subsystem testing. Supports integration, configuration management, design reviews, risk assessments, troubleshooting, and corrective actions. The role is full-time, on-site, and requires an active Secret clearance plus eligibility for SAP access.

Design and implement FPGA code for satellite digital payloads, including DSP algorithms, software-defined radio modulation and demodulation, and embedded processor interfaces. Develop custom IP, improve DSP and interface reliability, integrate vendor IP, and support communications architecture and spacecraft design studies. Participate across simulation, synthesis, place and route, timing closure, and hardware testing using Xilinx FPGAs and industry-standard HDL and simulation tools.

Designs and develops hardware test boards and platforms for high-speed electro-optical device characterization in R&D and manufacturing environments. Performs laboratory testing, analog design and debugging, test-system development, hardware bring-up, and firmware development for microcontrollers. Supports System-on-Chip optical engine development and interfaces with vendors. Preferred experience includes power supply design, advanced PCB stack-ups, optical instrumentation, automated measurements, and coherent optical communications.

Leads DFM and DFA analysis for complex PCB assemblies, develops manufacturing rule sets, reviews fabrication and assembly data, and collaborates with manufacturing, quality, engineering, and customers. Designs high-density multilayer PCB layouts from schematics using industry-standard CAD tools, creates manufacturing deliverables, maintains libraries and design standards, and supports continuous improvement across a global electronics manufacturing organization.

Develops detailed audiovisual system designs, including signal flows, schematics, rack layouts, networked AV solutions, technical drawings, and bills of materials. Collaborates with sales, project managers, architects, clients, and engineering teams to refine requirements and support implementation. Conducts design reviews, quality checks, troubleshooting, system validation, and value engineering while ensuring designs meet project scope, budget, standards, and client expectations.

Designs and validates electrical and electronic components, subsystems, integrated circuitry, and hardware solutions. Develops test plans covering tolerances, form, fit, function, shock, vibration, EMI, safety, reliability, thermal performance, and power. Performs feasibility, margin, validation, modeling, and empirical analyses; collaborates with internal and outsourced engineering partners; evaluates production reliability and supports prototype fabrication for reliable, cost-effective products.

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.

Own ASIC, FPGA, and SoC verification activities across aerospace programs. Develop SystemVerilog and UVM environments, reusable verification infrastructure, and UVCs; support planning, simulation, debugging, integration, requirements traceability, coverage, metrics-driven closure, and delivery. Lead verification efforts, troubleshoot across RTL and system boundaries, mentor engineers, assess completeness, and coordinate technical workstreams. The role is fully onsite and requires eligibility for a U.S. Secret clearance.

Build and ship interactive creative and engineering tools using React and TypeScript. Design core interactions, visual systems, motion behavior, accessibility, and performance-focused UI. Partner with internal users to iterate on features, contribute to design systems, review code and designs, and bridge design and engineering. The role requires strong visual craft, interaction design expertise, production engineering skills, and experience delivering complex editors or interactive platforms.

Develop and lead RF, SerDes, and mm-wave integrated circuits from architecture and simulation through silicon validation. Responsibilities include RF and analog IP design, layout guidance, characterization strategy, PCB development, RF and system-level measurements, competitive benchmarking, technology collaboration, productization, and university research liaison activities.

Design and develop physical layouts for silicon interposers used in NVIDIA products. Collaborate with package technical leads, signal integrity and technology engineers, and design teams to deliver package solutions. Conduct feasibility studies, floorplanning, custom layout, design-rule and netlist verification, and layout trade-off analysis. Resolve manufacturing, electrical, cost, and scheduling issues while using Cadence tools and verification flows such as DRC and LVS.

Lead design and reliability reviews for human-rated space station systems. Oversee qualification and test completeness, assess design and operational changes, develop engineering standards and review frameworks, track design maturity and compliance, build risk-analysis tools, and collaborate across configuration management, software, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to improve system reliability.

Design and evolve satellite bus architectures across mission profiles. Define system requirements, allocate them to subsystems, manage interfaces and traceability, conduct system-level trade studies and analyses, identify technical risks, and prepare designs for integration, testing, and qualification. Collaborate with propulsion, avionics, power, structures, thermal, software, and manufacturing teams while supporting design reviews and customer technical discussions.

Develop and verify FPGA designs from test planning through tape-out. Create SystemVerilog and UVM testbenches, C-based tests, UVCs, and hardware/software integration tests. Develop test plans, measure functional coverage, and drive coverage closure. Preferred experience includes SpaceWire, DDR4 memory interfaces, SerDes connectivity, and configuration, control, and telemetry systems.

The Senior Structural Analyst will perform thermal, structural, and durability analyses on turbomachinery products, troubleshoot system interactions, and support testing processes.

Ensures enrichment technology designs meet design criteria and remain consistent from concept through operation. Leads design and change reviews, maintains configuration and technical documentation, manages engineering risks, coordinates cross-disciplinary interfaces, drives action closure, and automates review and risk workflows. The role requires strong technical documentation, decision-making, accountability, and systems-level understanding across engineering teams.

Designs and develops aircraft subsystems including avionics, control surfaces, propulsion interfaces, and environmental systems. Translates system requirements into specifications, interfaces, drawings, and bills of materials; performs engineering analyses, trade studies, and simulations; plans and evaluates subsystem testing; supports integration, configuration management, design reviews, risk assessments, and corrective actions. The role is full-time, on-site in El Segundo or Palmdale, California, with up to 25% travel.

Develop and maintain SystemVerilog and UVM-based FPGA verification testbenches, create verification plans and tests, build reusable verification components, analyze functional coverage, debug simulation failures, and support verification through final sign-off. The role also involves C-based testing, hardware/software integration, and collaboration with hardware, firmware, and systems engineering teams.

Develop and maintain SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches, UVCs, automated tests, and C-based hardware/software integration tests for FPGA verification. Create test plans, analyze functional and code coverage, drive coverage closure, debug failures, and collaborate with design, architecture, and firmware teams from planning through tape-out. Own verification deliverables, communicate risks, participate in technical reviews, and mentor junior engineers.

Validate and characterize circuit boards for unmanned systems through board bring-up, worst-case circuit analysis, test planning, qualification, reliability testing, and bench validation. The role designs test fixtures, hardware-in-the-loop setups, and automated Python tests; performs thermal, vibration, HALT/HASS, and failure analysis; and provides design-for-test feedback to product engineers.

Leads ADAS sensor hardware integration from concept through vehicle launch. Responsibilities include defining sensor placement, mounting, interfaces, packaging, and design requirements; coordinating suppliers, tooling, verification, validation, calibration, and manufacturing readiness; assessing alignment, tolerances, vibration, temperature, contamination, and vehicle-system interactions; maintaining DFMEAs and product-release data in 3DEXPERIENCE; and supporting vehicle builds and production launch.

Design and develop high-speed mixed-signal electronics for spacecraft, including architecture, component selection, PCBA design, board bring-up, debugging, and environmental qualification. Integrate electronics into spacecraft systems, operate hardware in flight, and develop test equipment, development boards, and test scripts. The role focuses initially on core compute electronics for K2’s Mega Class satellite and includes testing for vibration, shock, thermal, thermal vacuum, radiation, and EMI/EMC conditions.

Owns the design and release of vehicle exterior and underhood trim components from concept through production and launch. Responsibilities include developing components, establishing cost and performance targets, coordinating with suppliers and cross-functional teams, ensuring CAD and drawing quality, managing design risks through DFMEA, supporting root-cause analysis, leading design reviews, implementing product improvements, and supporting prototype and production builds.

Lead the design release and production launch of automotive underhood trim components, including leafscreens and cowlscreens. Responsibilities include developing production-intent designs, defining packaging and interfaces, coordinating suppliers and tooling, planning validation, maintaining DFMEAs, resolving durability and environmental issues, and supporting prototype, manufacturing, and launch activities.

Designs, builds, commissions, and maintains automated test infrastructure and ground support equipment for spacecraft and propulsion hardware. Integrates mechanical, electrical, fluid, instrumentation, PLC, and data acquisition systems. Owns systems from concept through fabrication and ongoing support, ensuring high uptime and predictable performance. Collaborates with propulsion, avionics, GNC, and manufacturing teams while documenting systems and supporting PLC and EtherCAT tooling.