Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

The Lead Design Engineer is responsible for Mechanical Flight Controls, ensuring safety and compliance with FAA regulations, providing design solutions, and collaborating across teams for aircraft safety and performance.

Lead and develop a team of manufacturing engineers to deliver space-grade harnesses, structures, propulsion hardware, and electrical components. Drive design-for-manufacturability, supplier management, process improvements, and production-floor solutions while ensuring safety, reliability, and cross-functional technical coordination.

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.

Seeking a Senior Design Engineer for Mechanical Flight Controls, overseeing design solutions, compliance, and troubleshooting for aerospace projects.

Lead payload design engineering for out-of-production commercial aircraft: support COSP/SRP projects, create design solutions, review past engineering documents, coordinate design reviews and supplier activities, support spares and service engineering, and develop/modify interior payload systems using 3-D CAD tools.

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

The IT Systems Engineer designs, develops, and integrates complex systems, focusing on operational support and optimizing system engineering tasks in a collaborative environment.

Lead development and integration of fault and autonomy architectures for first-of-kind space vehicles. Perform failure analyses (FMECA, fault tree), write onboard fault protection software requirements, design autonomy and ground recovery procedures, coordinate stakeholders and customers, present reviews, and provide occasional on-call anomaly support. Ensure redundancy and fault tolerance across spacecraft and ground systems.

Design, model, and validate spaceborne laser and optical systems (OCT, LRF, LIDAR, star trackers). Define mission requirements, perform modeling/simulation and calibration, lead unit and system-level testing (ground and on-orbit), manage suppliers and project schedule/budget, and support proposals and mission data processing interfaces.

Lead full-lifecycle development of special test equipment for space-grade power, digital, RF, and mixed-signal systems. Perform hands-on circuit design and prototyping, develop models and simulations (SPICE, MATLAB/Simulink, ADS), create automated test software (LabVIEW, TestStand, Python, C#), manage program planning and reporting, drive design reviews and verification for space qualification, troubleshoot integration/testing anomalies, define procurement, mentor staff, and support proposals.