Top Systems Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Leads the design, integration, fabrication, commissioning, and validation of avionics ground systems supporting engine testing, vehicle integration, and launch operations. The role develops electrical power and communication systems, authors interface and release documentation, performs testing and calibration, and collaborates with vehicle, propulsion, software, safety, and launch teams. Requires extensive aerospace test-system experience and expertise in signal integrity, grounding, shielding, power systems, communications protocols, and data acquisition platforms.

Build and operate a distributed telemetry data platform for ingest, processing, indexing, compression, storage, and query. Design APIs, horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, multi-environment deployments, customer data isolation, and high-performance systems supporting petabytes of data and millions of series. Engineers own projects from design through release and operations while solving complex distributed-systems challenges on a small founding team.

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.

Leads mission systems engineering for first-of-kind space vehicles and missions. Develops physics-based simulations, mission concepts, flight plans, and operational planning tools; supports system trade studies, technology integration, and performance verification. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams, customers, and subject matter experts while presenting technical reviews and leading integrated development efforts across space and ground systems.

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 systems engineering execution for satellite command-and-control ground systems supporting national defense missions. Owns requirements, verification and validation, system architecture, space-to-ground interfaces, integration, testing, operational readiness, risk mitigation, and sustainment. Coordinates cross-functional teams, mission operations, government stakeholders, and technical review boards while applying MBSE and requirements management processes. The role requires extensive lifecycle leadership of classified aerospace ground systems and eligibility for DoD TS/SCI or TS/SAP clearance.

Designs, develops, models, integrates, validates, and tests environmental control systems for commercial, regional, business, and military aircraft. Responsibilities include developing air and vapor cycle performance models, conducting thermodynamic, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics analyses, defining system requirements, validating models against test data, and collaborating with hardware and software engineering teams.

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.

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.

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.

Designs and develops RF, digital, and optical satellite communication systems. Responsibilities include creating and verifying fixed-point digital signal-processing architectures, defining requirements and interfaces, developing link budgets, analyzing models, conducting trade studies, prototyping communication testbeds, supporting integration and simulations, and assisting with ASIC/FPGA design verification, procurement, reviews, and unit sell-offs.

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.

Migrate, maintain, and optimize game development build pipelines across Unreal Engine Horde and Jenkins. Responsibilities include cloud migration, CI/CD automation, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, observability, troubleshooting, source control integration, documentation, and technical support. The role partners with developers, platform engineers, DevOps teams, and studios to improve build reliability, scalability, uptime, and performance across Windows and Linux environments.

Designs and analyzes space missions, including rendezvous, proximity operations, and constellation performance. Builds simulation and modeling tools, conducts orbital mechanics and Monte Carlo analyses, optimizes spacecraft maneuvers, and supports system architecture decisions. Oversees mission-system integration, verification, testing, real-time mission support, and pre- and post-flight analyses. Collaborates with subsystem teams and stakeholders to assess performance, reliability, safety, risks, and mission success.

Leads the design, development, integration, and verification of advanced aerospace systems. Defines system requirements, architectures, and verification plans while ensuring compliance with technical and safety standards. Collaborates with cross-functional engineering teams, applies advanced engineering principles, and addresses complex aerospace challenges involving avionics and emerging technologies. The role also includes people leadership responsibilities such as talent development, retention, engagement, and fostering an inclusive culture.

Designs and integrates operational concepts for space missions and first-of-kind space vehicles. Coordinates stakeholders, customers, and subject matter experts; supports technology integration; develops leadership review packages; leads system trade studies, architecture development, functional analysis, and cross-segment issue resolution. Applies MBSE tools to capture system architecture and operational concepts while working with multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role is fully onsite and requires occasional after-hours support.

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.

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.

Designs, integrates, tests, and manages 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 mechanical systems engineering expertise, knowledge of stress, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer, plus experience with requirements-based engineering and aerospace systems.

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.

Designs, develops, and executes avionics testing strategies for rocket systems across component, subsystem, and vehicle levels. Responsibilities include system integration, design validation, test planning, troubleshooting, automation, testbed operation, vehicle-level CONOPs, go/no-go criteria, operator manuals, console operations, and launch-test data review. The role validates power systems, fault tolerance, vehicle networks, software, and other integrated electrical systems.

Designs, develops, integrates, verifies, and supports special test equipment for space electronics. Responsibilities include hardware or software test system development, automated test software, circuit design, prototyping, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, qualification testing, configuration management, equipment selection, and technical proposal support. The role collaborates with engineers, technicians, and program leads and is fully onsite in El Segundo, California.

Leads spacecraft mechanical engineering efforts, establishes technical direction, and develops processes, standards, tools, and design guides. Supports engineering authorities with technical problem-solving and verification testing, provides guidance during design reviews, customer meetings, failure analyses, and trade studies, and audits programs and suppliers for improvement opportunities. Mentors mechanical engineers and advances emerging spacecraft mechanical design technologies.