Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Designs and develops RF, digital, and optical satellite communication systems. Responsibilities include creating and verifying digital signal-processing architectures, defining requirements and interfaces, developing link budgets, conducting performance analyses and trade studies, building prototypes, supporting integration and simulations, and contributing to ASIC/FPGA design verification, procurement, reviews, and unit sell-offs. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California and requires U.S. citizenship, export-control eligibility, and a Secret clearance after starting.

Develop and maintain requirements, architectures, algorithms, interfaces, and designs for satellite command-and-control software. Lead software development in scaled Agile and DevSecOps environments, integrate software components, support customer demonstrations, and perform Product Owner, Technical Lead, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer, or Integration and Test responsibilities. Manage development schedules, integration activities, and cost baselines while supporting high-performance ground systems.

Architects, designs, specifies, develops, integrates, tests, and qualifies real-time satellite payload models for software and hardware-based system simulators. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, software architecture and design, code reviews, test planning, system-level CONOPS development, functional decomposition, trade studies, and collaboration with multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role is fully onsite and supports defense, government, and commercial satellite programs in an agile CI/CD environment.

Develops and verifies RF communication systems for spacecraft, including space stations and satellites. Responsibilities include link budgets, coverage analysis, RF component ownership, requirements and verification, regulatory analyses, testing, integration, vendor coordination, design reviews, and mission operations support. The engineer collaborates across mechanical, thermal, avionics, manufacturing, test, and mission assurance teams to deliver and operate space-qualified RF products.

Designs, integrates, configures, and optimizes IT infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. Installs and administers operating systems, servers, virtualization, storage, and Office 365 environments; supports high availability and security; documents procedures; researches automation; and leads DevSecOps adoption for ground-support computing infrastructure. Requires collaboration with engineering teams on requirements, schedules, deployments, and costing.

Designs, analyzes, tests, and supports satellite electrical power and harness subsystems across the spacecraft lifecycle. Responsibilities include requirements definition, verification artifacts, battery and bus modeling, voltage regulation and stability analysis, harness calculations, power budgeting, architecture and sizing, fault-tolerance analysis, anomaly resolution, and multidisciplinary collaboration. The role requires onsite work in El Segundo and may support mission operations and sustaining engineering.

Leads end-to-end space system integration and test programs spanning spacecraft, ground systems, software, hardware, and external interfaces. Develops test requirements, procedures, scripts, and configurations; performs laboratory and flight hardware testing; troubleshoots technical issues; supports verification, validation, launch readiness, and mission operations. Coordinates multifunctional teams, presents status to leadership, improves processes, and leads small projects while managing technical scope, cost, and schedule.

Designs and integrates complex aerospace mechanical systems, supporting architecture trade studies, requirements-based engineering, validation and verification, system testing, technical presentations, and documentation. The role focuses on thermodynamics and thermal management within cross-functional teams, including planning performance, environmental, and vibration tests. Candidates will work in Torrance, California, on a hybrid schedule and must meet U.S. export-control requirements.

Designs, integrates, verifies, and tests satellite ground systems. Develops requirements, interface documents, architecture, test plans, and reports. Performs system analyses for reliability, safety, maintainability, security, and affordability. Works in agile teams, mentors staff, and supports requirements management, system integration, verification, and customer delivery to ensure mission success.

Designs, analyzes, tests, and supports satellite electrical power and harness subsystems throughout the spacecraft lifecycle. Responsibilities include power modeling, battery and solar array sizing, voltage regulation, power budgets, harness analysis, fault tolerance, requirements verification, architecture development, anomaly resolution, and cross-functional integration with thermal, mechanical, software, and avionics teams.

Develop and integrate space payload emulators using Xilinx SoC/FPGA platforms, embedded Linux, firmware, drivers, and hardware/software interfaces. Build Java or JavaScript GUIs for telemetry, command, and control. Perform board bring-up, lab debugging, system integration, and testing with multidisciplinary engineering teams. Use Xilinx toolchains, version control, and modern software practices while providing technical leadership during integration campaigns.

Oversee optical systems for space missions, including EO/IR sensors, laser systems, and optical communications payloads. Develop requirements, model and simulate system performance, execute ground and on-orbit testing, manage interfaces and suppliers, coordinate complex technical projects, support proposals, and mentor engineers. The role requires extensive optical engineering experience, space-based sensor expertise, U.S. citizenship, and eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and sustains satellite ground and mission control systems. Responsibilities include defining hardware and software requirements, developing integration and test plans, supporting customer and government-furnished systems, leading mission-control testing, designing mission data interfaces, supporting on-orbit operations, and contributing to proposals. The role is fully onsite and requires an active U.S. Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Leads reliability, maintainability, and system safety engineering across the aerospace systems lifecycle. Responsibilities include reliability and maintainability analysis, human factors assessments, functional hazard analysis, safety requirements decomposition and verification, FMECA, systems integration, model-based development, customer interaction, and coordination of small engineering teams. Requires a technical bachelor’s degree and at least one year of systems engineering experience.

Lead design and technical strategy for spacecraft Command & Data Handling architectures. Perform trade studies, requirements and ICD definition, signal integrity/EMI analysis, vendor selection, integration/test oversight, FDIR collaboration, and mentor engineering staff to ensure mission-ready avionics and electrical hardware.

Leads development of MILSATCOM ground mission planning systems, including requirements analysis, architecture and interface design, software integration, system testing, verification, and customer demonstrations. Coordinates engineering, software, supplier, and test teams; manages requirements, risks, issues, and technical interfaces; supports working groups and resolves cross-functional technical issues. The role requires active Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, a bachelor’s degree, and at least five years of engineering experience.

Design and verify RF, digital, and optical satellite communication systems, develop and validate fixed-point multi-rate DSP architectures, perform link budgets and performance analysis, support ASIC/FPGA system design and prototype demonstrations, and lead integration, verification, and trade studies.

Owns Terran R vehicle RF systems, including architecture trades, link budgets, frequency planning, antenna coverage analysis, RF hardware development, integrated testing, and anomaly investigations. Establishes RF analysis standards, leads cross-disciplinary technical work, and mentors junior engineers. The role requires extensive flight-system RF experience, hands-on test equipment use, electromagnetic simulation, and Python or MATLAB automation.

Own end-to-end power system architecture and power electronics development for lunar systems, including circuit design, simulations, PCB design, packaging, bring-up, validation, environmental qualification, and reliability analysis. Lead power architecture tradeoffs, radiation and thermal mitigation, fault-tolerant design, qualification campaigns, and technical reviews. Mentor junior engineers and establish scalable design standards and processes across programs.

Designs, develops, analyzes, and verifies RF, digital, and optical communications payloads for space applications. Responsibilities include requirements development, trade studies, system algorithms, MATLAB-based simulations, link and performance analysis, supplier oversight, hardware procurement, design reviews, integration, testing, troubleshooting, and on-orbit operations support. The role supports satellite programs throughout their full life cycle and requires active U.S. Secret clearance and 100% onsite work.

Develops and verifies satellite ground systems for Boeing’s MILSATCOM program. Responsibilities include requirements analysis and decomposition, systems architecture, interface design, integration and testing, verification, demonstrations, and test documentation. The role supports C2 software development in an agile environment, requirements and risk management, system-of-systems analysis, and customer delivery. This is a fully onsite position requiring an active U.S. Secret clearance and U.S. person status.

Lead or Senior Ground Systems Engineer responsible for designing, integrating, verifying, and testing satellite ground systems. Duties include requirements analysis, interface design, system architecture optimization, test plan/procedure development and execution, system integration and verification, and lifecycle support while following Boeing processes and participating in scaled agile teams.

The Ground Systems Engineer will develop and verify satellite ground systems, engage in design trade studies, and support integration and testing processes against customer requirements.

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.

The Systems Engineer will design and develop RF, digital, and optical satellite communication systems, focusing on signal processing architectures, performance analysis, and unit integration.