Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Integrate Ford’s complete electric-vehicle thermal management system across coolant, refrigeration, and climate/HVAC subsystems. Maintain system architecture and requirements traceability, integrate plant models, conduct system-level simulations and trade studies, resolve cross-subsystem hardware issues, and coordinate validation against test data. The role also supports design reviews and collaborates with controls, design, and subsystem engineering teams to ensure proper packaging, model integration, and technical decision-making.

Designs and develops automotive interior hard-trim systems from concept through production launch. Responsibilities include creating requirements, specifications, 3D geometry, system targets, crash-load solutions, and production-feasible materials and construction methods. The role conducts analytical and physical assessments, applies GD&T, ensures regulatory compliance, coordinates with design, manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers, and presents concepts and status to management. It also leads teams and supports factory product launches.

Designs and integrates complex aerospace environmental control systems. Responsibilities include system architecture trade studies, requirements development and validation, verification planning, system-level testing, technical presentations, and traceable technical documentation. The role requires collaboration with component and analysis teams and expertise in mechanical systems, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, thermal management, requirements engineering, and aerospace environmental testing.

Leads the design, integration, architecture, and technical oversight of complex aerospace systems involving hardware, software, and networks. Provides strategic direction, mentors engineering staff, coordinates multidisciplinary teams, supports project engineering, troubleshoots field issues, and oversees control system integration and test equipment. Ensures solutions meet quality standards and technical requirements while communicating complex information to customers and stakeholders.

Designs, integrates, and oversees complex aerospace systems involving hardware, software, and network components. Provides strategic systems engineering direction, develops architectures, leads control-system integration and test equipment activities, troubleshoots field issues, and supports project engineering. Coordinates multidisciplinary teams, project management organizations, customers, and technical experts while ensuring designs meet quality and industry standards.

The Survivability Systems Engineer/Scientist leads analyses and testing for spacecraft survivability against environmental challenges, overseeing designs and compliance verification.

Leads mission systems engineering for first-of-kind space vehicles and missions. Develops physics-based simulations, mission flight plans, operational planning tools, and concept-of-operations solutions. Supports technology integration, system trade studies, performance verification, and customer presentations. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams and subject matter experts across space and ground domains while providing technical leadership in an accelerated development environment.

Leads systems engineering activities for satellite and space-related applications, including requirements development and management, system architecture, specifications, ICDs, traceability, verification planning, testing, integration, and change control. Coordinates cross-functional engineering teams, resolves subsystem interface issues, supports technical reviews, and assesses requirements and verification risks. The role requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance, U.S. citizenship, and at least 10 years of related experience.

Develop and maintain software requirements, architecture, algorithms, interfaces, APIs, backend services, and user interfaces for SATCOM mission-planning systems. Work throughout the Agile and DevSecOps lifecycle, including design, coding, integration, testing, deployment, code reviews, automation, security, and performance improvements. Support CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes optimization, databases, geospatial visualization, and software for space systems and ground segments.

Leads systems engineering for space and ground systems, including requirements management, architecture, integration, verification, validation, testing, and operational product development. Develops requirements and interface control documents, resolves technical issues, supports mission operations, applies model-based systems engineering and scaled Agile practices, and leads technical teams through complex government programs. The role is fully onsite and requires an active U.S. Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Lead design, architecture, and implementation of APIs, front-end interfaces, and backend services for satellite and ground systems. Guide Agile/DevSecOps development, CI/CD, automated testing, and security practices; lead code reviews, mentor team members, and own features through full lifecycle to deployment.

Leads systems engineering activities for space and ground systems, including requirements management, architecture, integration, verification, validation, testing, and technical issue resolution. Develops test plans, operational products, and verification reports; supports mission execution, system security, reliability, and interface compatibility. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams using scaled agile processes to deliver systems for government clients.

Leads systems engineering activities for proprietary space and ground-system programs, including requirements development and management, interface control documentation, architecture and design support, integration, testing, verification, and validation. The role addresses technical risks, system performance, reliability, security, and mission requirements while supporting model-based systems engineering, automation, scaled Agile development, and cross-functional technical issue resolution. This is a 100% onsite position requiring an active U.S. Top Secret clearance.

Designs, integrates, tests, and verifies complex aerospace mechanical systems. Responsibilities include system architecture trade studies, requirements-based systems engineering, validation and verification planning, system-level environmental testing, technical presentations, and traceable technical documentation. The role collaborates with component and analysis teams to deliver safe, efficient systems meeting customer and quality requirements.

Develop and operate highly available OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms across GCP and Azure. Responsibilities include automation, Infrastructure as Code, service-level management, incident troubleshooting, post-mortem analysis, roadmap planning, and collaboration with platform engineering teams. The role also involves mentoring engineers and improving platform reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Develops system architectures using MBSE and SysML, decomposes requirements, maintains traceability, analyzes mission threads and use cases, and supports engineering milestone reviews. The role translates customer reference architectures, ensures model compliance, improves MBSE processes and tools, mentors systems engineers, and supports customer relationships. The position is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, and requires U.S. citizenship, export-control eligibility, and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Develops ground segment operational products and supports space mission systems through system-level integration, testing, verification, ConOps development, architecture analysis, and cross-functional technical issue resolution. The role requires collaboration across multidisciplinary engineering teams on rapid-prototyping and high-intensity space technology projects.

Designs and develops satellite systems across their lifecycle, including requirements definition, interface coordination, system architecture, trade studies, compliance tracking, technical reviews, and integration and test support. Collaborates with interdisciplinary teams and customers, resolves cross-functional issues, manages requirements traceability using DOORS and Cameo, supports engineering change proposals, and may contribute to launch-site or mission-operations activities.

Develop and integrate electrical hardware systems and architectures for electric vehicles. Responsibilities include hands-on component bring-up, lab and vehicle testing, hardware debugging, prototype assembly, supplier deliverable review, integration test execution, electrical validation, and requirements traceability in JAMA. The role collaborates across engineering teams and requires work in labs, vehicles, and manufacturing environments, with occasional travel.

Own materials and processes engineering for thermal protection systems and non-metallic soft goods supporting Terran R flight and reuse. Define qualification envelopes, test plans, characterization campaigns, specifications, and engineering standards. Lead statistically driven experiments, process improvements, failure analyses, and material qualification. Collaborate with materials, laboratory, design, manufacturing, supply chain, reliability, fracture control, and leadership teams to resolve technical risks and improve performance, cost, quality, manufacturing rate, and reusability.

Design and develop vehicle interior systems and components from concept through production launch. Create requirements, specifications, 3D geometry, system targets, and production-feasible designs while balancing crash performance, cost, weight, materials, and manufacturing methods. Conduct analytical and physical assessments, ensure regulatory compliance, apply GD&T, and collaborate with design, packaging, manufacturing, supply chain, suppliers, and other engineering teams. Lead teams, support production release, and present concepts and status to management.

Lead systems engineering for a next-generation unmanned aircraft system. Responsibilities include defining system architecture, behaviors, requirements, interfaces, fault responses, and traceability; integrating avionics, autonomy, propulsion, sensors, and mission systems; conducting MBSE modeling, trade studies, safety analyses, flight testing, and performance validation; and coordinating cross-functional teams, DoD stakeholders, and government partners through development and operational deployment.

Develop, qualify, and implement manufacturing processes for satellite structures and propulsion. Review designs for manufacturability, create work instructions and SOPs, lead process transition from low-rate to higher-rate production, and perform root-cause analysis with engineering corrective actions.

Build and test spacecraft through electrical verification, mechanical integration, automated test scripting, procedure development, requirements validation, environmental testing, and non-conformance resolution. Collaborate with technicians, quality inspectors, and engineers in a cleanroom while supporting prototype and flight builds. The role requires rotating shifts, U.S. citizenship, eligibility for a Top Secret/SCI clearance, and occasional travel to launch or integration sites.

Lead integration, verification, and system-level testing of spacecraft hardware and software subsystems. Develop test plans, procedures, requirements traceability, and automation; execute multidisciplinary testing across avionics, propulsion, communications, and other vehicle systems. Troubleshoot failures, coordinate corrective actions, document results, and support design, readiness, verification, and validation reviews throughout the production lifecycle.