Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

The Mechanical Engineer will design, test, and qualify spacecraft components, owning the hardware lifecycle from concept through testing and analysis.

Design, develop, and test flight and ground software for orbital return vehicles; integrate with avionics and GN&C; build tools and infrastructure for testing, telemetry, and data analysis; debug issues during integration, testing, and flight operations; collaborate cross-functionally and support flight readiness and mission operations.

The Senior Structure Analysis Engineer will lead structural and thermal analysis for spacecraft, ensuring flight readiness, safety, and performance through extensive collaboration with various teams.

Design and test electronic systems for spacecraft, including PCBAs and electrical harnesses, while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineers.

The Senior Mechanical Engineer will lead the design and analysis of structural components for spacecraft, handle high-fidelity analysis, create manufacturing drawings, oversee testing campaigns, and mentor junior engineers.

Outpost is hiring for various engineering roles focused on building spacecraft for returning payloads from orbit. The company seeks driven individuals for a rapid development environment and encourages general applications for future roles.

Lead AI&T for spacecraft return vehicles: own integration and test strategy, lead engineers and technicians, develop and execute environmental and functional test campaigns, drive anomaly resolution, coordinate cross-discipline issues, maintain test documentation, and support flight readiness.

Lead and scale Outpost's full software function, owning strategy, architecture, and execution across flight software, ground systems, and infrastructure. Build a high-performing engineering organization, establish best practices and release processes, partner with avionics and GN&C, and report metrics to executive leadership to ensure reliable system delivery.

Design, build, and test avionics hardware (flight computers, power, sensors, comms) across architecture through flight. Support qualification testing (vibration, thermal, EMI/EMC), integration, troubleshooting, test procedures, and flight readiness for return vehicles.

The Director of Structures and Mechanisms leads the engineering team for structural systems in aerospace, ensuring flight readiness through design, analysis, and certification.