Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Designs and develops spacecraft solar arrays, including requirements, architecture trades, materials and vendor selection, photovoltaic manufacturing processes, qualification testing, and lifecycle troubleshooting. The engineer integrates with systems, power electronics, structures, thermal, and mission assurance teams; supports design reviews, drawing checks, technical documentation, and NASA deliverables. The role requires engineering design and verification experience with photovoltaics or comparable composite structures, with space industry and advanced analysis software experience preferred.

Develops and optimizes thermal control systems for human-rated space stations and spacecraft. Responsibilities include requirements development, thermal analysis, design documentation, hardware drawing reviews, cross-functional engineering coordination, customer reporting, and planning and execution of subsystem thermal vacuum testing. The role also evaluates cost and schedule impacts and supports thermal system lifecycle activities from concept through operations.

Leads reliability engineering for Haven-1 avionics, RF, and power systems. Responsibilities include FMEA and fault-tree analysis, design and test reviews, verification and validation, reliability risk reduction, engineering standards, configuration management, change control, and hardware integration. The role guides design decisions, qualification and acceptance testing, manufacturing readiness, and human-rated space station reliability throughout the development lifecycle.

Design and develop thermal control systems and components for human-rated space stations, from design trades through production, launch, and orbit insertion. Perform fluid analyses, systems engineering, testing, manufacturing process development, trade studies, and structural analysis. Lead design reviews and coordinate with suppliers, customers, technicians, software, avionics, and mission operations teams to deliver reliable, manufacturable hardware.

Designs and validates avionics enclosures, mounts, batteries, and crew-interface components for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include mechanical design, thermal and structural analysis, electronics packaging, requirements validation, testing, technical documentation, assembly drawings, and hardware-build support. The role partners closely with electrical engineering and supports mission-critical avionics development in extreme environments.

Design and develop thermal control systems and components for human-rated artificial-gravity space stations. Lead design trades, fluid analyses, manufacturing process iteration, testing, design reviews, systems integration, and project delivery through production, launch, and orbit insertion. Ensure designs are manufacturable, reliable, and optimized through structural analysis, failure investigation, trade studies, and collaboration with suppliers, customers, technicians, and interdisciplinary engineering teams.

Develops and executes avionics test campaigns for human-rated space station flight hardware. Responsibilities include writing and maintaining test procedures, planning and directing integration tests, evaluating safety and quality requirements, managing test schedules, assessing risks, resolving nonconformances, and exercising technical authority during testing events. The role collaborates with engineering teams, subject matter experts, and technicians to verify vehicle-level systems and transition designs into tested flight-ready hardware.

Own end-to-end avionics box development for a scalable satellite bus, including make/buy/reuse decisions, schematic and layout, procurement, PCBA fabrication, board bring-up, radiation and environmental qualification, harness design, flight builds, and production-rate design. Coordinate parallel hardware developments, testing, design reviews, and collaboration with Haven-1 avionics teams.

Develop and optimize manufacturing and assembly processes for avionics and wire harnesses. Create manufacturing plans and work instructions, perform hands-on assembly/integration/testing, resolve manufacturing issues via root-cause analysis, work with suppliers and QA, participate in design reviews, and drive continuous improvement.

Own thermal architecture, analysis, modeling, and validation for a high-power, constellation-ready spacecraft bus. Responsibilities include evaluating passive and active thermal-control approaches, sizing radiators, managing thermal budgets, selecting coatings and materials, planning TVAC campaigns, correlating models to test data, and supporting solar-array and avionics thermal design. The engineer will begin as the sole thermal specialist and build a team as spacecraft production scales.