Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead avionics hardware and software integration, verification, validation, and system-level testing across spacecraft production and test platforms. Develop test plans, scripts, automation, and requirements traceability; troubleshoot hardware, software, and embedded systems; analyze results; and document compliance with aerospace standards. Collaborate across engineering teams and participate in design and test readiness reviews to ensure avionics flight readiness.

Design, analyze, document, build, integrate, and test precision motor-driven spacecraft mechanisms. Responsibilities include CAD design, stress and tolerance analysis, drivetrain component integration, engineering drawings, fabrication support, environmental testing, troubleshooting, and collaboration with avionics, motor control, and systems engineering teams.

Develop and govern Cameo-based SysML models for space and missile defense systems. Lead requirements traceability, architecture, interfaces, verification and validation modeling, model integration, and digital thread development. Support systems engineering processes, DoD compliance, Agile model delivery, classified programs, subcontractor evaluation, customer engagements, and proposal activities. Integrate MBSE models with PLM and enterprise data systems while mentoring teams and driving MBSE adoption.

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.

Develop and test low-level flight software for spacecraft computers, integrate GNC algorithms, maintain command and telemetry databases, support spacecraft command sequencing, build subsystem simulators, and create device drivers and communications libraries. The role requires embedded RTOS, safety-critical systems, hardware protocols, C/C++, Python, and eligibility for TS/SCI clearance. This is an onsite position near Denver or Long Beach.

Develop and test flight software for spacecraft computers, integrate GNC algorithms, maintain command telemetry databases, and build simulators, device drivers, and communications libraries. The role includes spacecraft command scripting, ground-software collaboration, code reviews, and flight-software architecture work. Candidates need low-level firmware and safety-critical systems experience, embedded RTOS knowledge, C/C++ proficiency, and familiarity with hardware and networking protocols. This is an onsite position near Denver or Long Beach and requires the ability to maintain or obtain TS/SCI clearance.

Develop high-fidelity spacecraft simulation software in modern C++ and Python. Build multi-physics models covering spacecraft dynamics, thermal systems, attitude control, propulsion, power, sensors, and actuators. Implement solver architectures and time-stepping algorithms for real-time and faster-than-real-time simulation, maintain multi-language APIs, collaborate with engineering teams, and participate in code reviews and planning.

Leads and grows a team of modeling and simulation engineers developing high-fidelity physics-based models and digital twins for spacecraft design, testing, and operations. Provides technical oversight of modeling architecture, validation, and integration; owns the team roadmap; coordinates cross-functional delivery; manages hiring, performance, development, and team culture; and translates organizational strategy into execution.

Develop and enhance high-fidelity, multi-physics spacecraft simulation software covering dynamics, thermal systems, propulsion, power, sensors, and actuators. Design performant C++ and Python APIs, numerical solvers, integration schemes, and coupled-physics algorithms. Lead architectural decisions, verification and validation, documentation, code reviews, technical planning, and mentoring while collaborating with mission planning, GNC, and systems engineering teams.

Develop and test flight software for spacecraft, including onboard computers, GNC algorithm integration, command and telemetry systems, spacecraft sequencing, subsystem simulators, device drivers, and communications libraries. Collaborate with ground software teams across spacecraft design, manufacturing, integration, and flight operations. The role requires low-level firmware, embedded RTOS, safety-critical systems, C/C++, Python, and eligibility for TS/SCI clearance.