Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead systems engineering for human-rated commercial space stations: define and manage requirements, drive verification & validation, oversee cross-disciplinary design reviews, maintain engineering lifecycle documentation, and streamline systems engineering processes to ensure product readiness and mission safety.

Lead and grow a propulsion and thermal analysis team to establish analysis standards, validate simulation methods (FEA, CFD, 1-D, multiphase/slosh), integrate test and flight data, support propulsion and high-pressure fluid system design, and present findings for certification. Collaborate with design, GN&C, manufacturing, and test teams and drive root-cause investigations and corrective actions.

Lead manufacturability and production transition for the E-2 engine: create manufacturing plans, MBOM→MES transition, define assembly/test procedures, support shop layout and tooling procurement, perform hands-on assembly/integration/testing, mentor junior engineers, and implement continuous shop-floor improvements to optimize cost and production.

The Technical Project Manager will oversee cross-functional technical developments for future space stations, ensuring project success within timelines, budgets, and safety standards while maintaining effective communication with stakeholders.

Develop and deliver crew and console training, run human-in-the-loop testing, support mission operations and ground systems, translate customer requirements to CONOPS, provide operational support for pre-flight and on-orbit activities, analyze telemetry, lead flight control teams, and iterate processes with engineering teams to ensure safe spacecraft operations.

The Systems Engineer will own the spacecraft simulation toolchain for Vast, focusing on supporting design and analysis for spacecraft systems, ensuring rigorous validation and collaboration across disciplines.

The Director, Mission Engineering & Management will oversee program execution for a spacecraft bus product line, managing schedules, budgets, customer relations, and system requirements to ensure successful mission outcomes.

The Senior Manufacturing Engineer will design and implement manufacturing processes for tube systems to support the development of artificial-gravity space stations. Responsibilities include developing plans, resolving manufacturing issues, collaborating with engineers, and enhancing production efficiency.

Lead and grow a fluid systems design team for human-rated space stations, owning component-level design for propulsion, TCS and ECLSS. Drive vehicle packaging, design practices, tool development, cross-discipline integration, test support, supplier/government interfaces, risk management, and lessons-learned capture to enable development, qualification, and flight hardware delivery.

Own end-to-end structural engineering for lunar habitats, airlocks, nodes, pallets, and related systems. Design and analyze primary and secondary structures, pressure vessels, mechanisms, and micrometeoroid shielding; define loads and safety margins; create CAD and manufacturing drawings; coordinate subsystem interfaces; lead fabrication, verification testing, hardware checkout, and anomaly resolution. Support structural, pressure, hatch, and seal testing while establishing standards for Vast’s Lunar program.