Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Administer and support Teamcenter and NX PLM systems for aerospace engineering and manufacturing teams. Responsibilities include troubleshooting accounts, access, workflows, configurations, integrations, and material management; translating requirements into system changes; coordinating contractors; supporting patches and upgrades; maintaining documentation; and delivering user training. The role also requires requirements gathering, testing, root-cause analysis, and occasional overtime or weekend support for critical mission milestones.

Develop and maintain end-to-end architectures for Vast’s lunar ecosystem, including habitats, power, communications, logistics, and crew systems. Translate NASA requirements into system requirements, concepts of operations, and interface documents; conduct architecture trade studies; manage mass, power, data, thermal, and consumables budgets; mitigate system risks; lead milestone reviews; and represent lunar architecture to customers, suppliers, and partners.

Leads an engineering team responsible for developing and maintaining facilities, tooling, processes, and procedures used to build, integrate, test, and validate human-rated space station hardware. The role coordinates cross-functional production activities, resolves nonconformances, drives corrective actions, supports vehicle-level verification, improves manufacturing processes, and ensures safe, reliable, on-schedule execution. It also requires team development, technical judgment, configuration management, and hands-on integration leadership.

Develop and optimize software for testing, commanding, and monitoring spacecraft. Own software lifecycles through operations, configuration, maintenance, upgrades, and user support. Configure automated testing and deployment systems, maintain ground control systems, mentor junior engineers, and support spacecraft communications at launch sites and in orbit.

Design, build, and support full-stack web applications, backend services, APIs, data models, pipelines, and development tooling. Collaborate in a heterogeneous environment using modern frontend and application-server technologies. Help establish scalable software practices and patterns for a growing codebase and engineering team, supporting mission software for human-rated artificial-gravity space stations.

Own factory layout and production-system architecture for Haven-2, lead DFM/DFA and manufacturing readiness, define production metrics and dashboards, drive Lean and Six Sigma improvements, create manufacturing documentation, qualify tooling and processes, and support AS9100 compliance. The role partners across engineering, manufacturing, quality, and supply chain while solving complex production-floor challenges and scaling aerospace hardware from development to rate production.

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 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.

Own end-to-end mechanical engineering projects for Vast’s lunar ecosystem, including power stations, fluid systems, airlocks, nodes, and habitation modules. Lead lunar design trade studies, develop CAD models, drive fabrication and hardware integration, resolve anomalies, and represent systems at design reviews. The role requires hands-on ownership from concept through flight release, qualification, and testing while collaborating across power, thermal, avionics, life support, manufacturing, and systems architecture teams.

Design, implement, and support fixtures and tooling for Haven-1 assembly, lifting, and handling. Collaborate with integration, manufacturing, and vehicle engineering to define tooling specs, perform mechanical/FEA analysis, develop operation and maintenance plans, manage project schedules and vendors, iterate tooling improvements, and resolve production issues with technicians and stakeholders.