Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Designs, verifies, synthesizes, validates, and tests FPGA firmware for Terran R launch vehicles. Owns FPGA development through the full product lifecycle, including board bring-up, qualification, flight production, integration, and vehicle operations. Collaborates with mechanical, thermal, electrical, software, propulsion, GNC, and other teams to deliver reliable digital electronics on schedule. The role also involves debugging, data analysis, timing analysis, and cross-functional project coordination.

Own reliability and quality initiatives across rocket design, manufacturing, testing, and launch operations. Responsibilities include design standardization, DFM, configuration control, work instruction review, process development, build verification, nonconformance management, as-built verification, root cause and corrective action, inspection automation, and quality documentation. The role collaborates extensively with engineering, additive manufacturing, production, test, and launch teams while establishing scalable quality processes for the Terran R program.

Lead design and reliability reviews for human-rated space station systems. Oversee qualification and test completeness, assess design and operational changes, develop engineering standards and review frameworks, track design maturity and compliance, build risk-analysis tools, and collaborate across configuration management, software, manufacturing, integration, and test teams to improve system reliability.

Supports manufacturing development, assembly, inspection, integration, and troubleshooting of thermal control system hardware for human-rated space stations. Creates work instructions and inspection plans, works directly with shop-floor technicians, resolves manufacturing issues, supports nonconformance investigations and corrective actions, provides design-for-manufacturing feedback, and performs or supports specialized fluid-system processes including welding, brazing, tube bending, cleaning, leak testing, and pressure testing.

Designs, analyzes, documents, and tests mechanical, fluid, and thermal systems for satellite programs. Responsibilities include detailed system and component design, spatial integration, mechanisms and landing gear modification, technical documentation, proposal support, lab testing, technical data analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. The role is performed onsite under general supervision and requires eligibility for a U.S. security clearance.

Design, implement, and maintain APIs, backend services, and front-end interfaces for mission planning and satellite/ground systems. Lead feature development across the full lifecycle in an Agile DevSecOps environment, emphasizing automation, testing, security, performance, and code quality. Support integration, CI/CD pipelines, and geospatial visualization for defense communications systems.

Leads mission systems engineering for first-of-kind space vehicles and missions. Develops physics-based simulations, mission flight plans, operational planning tools, and concept-of-operations solutions. Supports technology integration, system trade studies, performance verification, and customer presentations. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams and subject matter experts across space and ground domains while providing technical leadership in an accelerated development environment.

Leads mission assurance across aerospace product lifecycles, chairing independent and readiness reviews, managing root-cause analyses, assessing hardware, software, and chemical hazards, and evaluating system readiness and requirements. The role supports complex aircraft and space mission systems through design, integration, testing, and field deployment while ensuring system, safety, and interface integrity.

Design and validate ASIC and mixed-signal subsystem architectures for space-based digital communication systems. Responsibilities include requirements derivation, verification planning, ADC/DAC performance analysis, technical trade studies, supplier coordination, hardware and software integration, qualification, unit sell-off, and risk mitigation. The role supports the full subsystem lifecycle and requires collaboration across engineering, program management, suppliers, and customers.

Design, develop, integrate, test, debug, and document embedded flight software for satellite and payload systems. Translate requirements, integrate software with specialized hardware, improve system stability, conduct cyber vulnerability analyses, implement monitoring algorithms, and create automation tools. Senior responsibilities include leading software integration, reviews, testing, supplier performance, project execution, and cross-functional collaboration. The role is fully onsite and requires U.S. Secret clearance eligibility, with final clearance required before starting.

Develop production robotics perception software for manufacturing environments. Responsibilities include 3D geometry reconstruction, segmentation, inspection, active perception, viewpoint planning, multi-sensor fusion, GPU acceleration, hardware-software integration, debugging, and deployment support. The role works directly with physical robots and sensors, assists application teams with proofs of concept and deployments, and travels to customer sites for system-level troubleshooting.

Leads advanced machining and manufacturing process optimization at Honeywell Aerospace. Responsibilities include improving production workflows, implementing lean and continuous improvement initiatives, analyzing manufacturing data, supporting compliance and quality standards, adopting advanced manufacturing technologies, and mentoring team members. The role collaborates cross-functionally to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance product quality while supporting aerospace component machining, inspection, and first article requirements.

Leads development of complex electronic and electrical requirements, satellite and avionics subsystem design, system architecture, interface specifications, integration, testing, and lifecycle support. Oversees supplier performance and engineering teams, evaluates technology advancements, and recommends technology investments. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, supports defense and space programs, and requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Support EMC across satellite program phases: define and verify EMC requirements, perform EMI/EMC analysis and susceptibility testing, run verification tests, collect supplier data, and contribute to proposal development while interfacing with multidisciplinary teams under a technical lead.

Leads systems engineering activities for satellite and space-related applications, including requirements development and management, system architecture, specifications, ICDs, traceability, verification planning, testing, integration, and change control. Coordinates cross-functional engineering teams, resolves subsystem interface issues, supports technical reviews, and assesses requirements and verification risks. The role requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance, U.S. citizenship, and at least 10 years of related experience.

Develops and manages system and subsystem requirements, architectures, technical specifications, and Interface Control Documents for satellite and space-related systems. Coordinates verification and validation activities, integration, traceability, design reviews, configuration control, and resolution of subsystem interface issues. Collaborates with hardware, software, test, suppliers, manufacturing, and product management teams while supporting technical risk assessments and audits.

Leads certification planning and integration for post-production commercial aircraft modifications across Boeing platforms. Responsibilities include defining certification strategies, coordinating engineering and program teams, validating FAA and EASA compliance, managing certification plans and deliverables, tracking risks, supporting milestone reviews, and driving issues through FAA acceptance. The role manages multiple ATC/STC projects and may require up to 10% domestic and international travel.

Design, implement, maintain, and optimize secure LAN, WAN, wireless, cloud, and network infrastructure. Lead firewall, VPN, routing, switching, load-balancer, intrusion prevention, resilience, disaster recovery, and documentation efforts. Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers while managing network security, reliability, scalability, and cross-functional risk. The role is onsite in El Segundo, California, and requires U.S. citizenship and obtaining a Secret security clearance.

Develops and documents electronic and electrical system requirements, hardware and software designs, system tests, supplier compliance, product integration solutions, and production anomaly resolutions for satellite and aerospace electronics. The role also researches emerging technologies and supports multiple Boeing product lines. It is 100% onsite in El Segundo, California, requires U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a Top Secret/SCI clearance, and supports associate or experienced-level candidates.

Supports government robotics projects by operating robotics software, executing structured adaptive-sanding experiments, calibrating and troubleshooting robotic cells, validating sensor and motion data, and documenting trial results. The role partners with senior engineers to improve manufacturing processes and gradually assumes ownership of defined sanding-process areas.

Architect, build, and optimize a full-stack platform using React.js, Node.js, GraphQL, REST APIs, and SQL databases. Lead technical decisions, performance optimization, observability, testing strategies, and cloud-based deployments. Mentor engineers, conduct design reviews, evaluate technologies, and drive initiatives across multiple teams while collaborating with product, QA, customers, and leadership.

Develop and mature R&D manufacturing processes from technical demonstration through production transfer. Responsibilities include designing experiments, analyzing process variation, establishing operating windows and controls, qualifying measurement methods, conducting risk assessments and FMEAs, documenting procedures, and supporting validation, training, and initial production. The role focuses on achieving repeatability, yield, capability, throughput, cycle time, cost, and commercial practicality in collaboration with R&D, equipment engineering, mechatronics, and production teams.

Develop and integrate electromechanical manufacturing equipment, controls, software, instrumentation, and data systems for novel additive and post-processing technologies. Responsibilities include prototyping, equipment modification, automation, troubleshooting, measurement-system development, process validation, and technical ownership from concept through handoff. The role collaborates across mechanical, electrical, controls, software, materials, and process engineering disciplines, and requires onsite work with occasional extended hours or weekends.

Leads the design and implementation of optical beam pointing and control algorithms for a Mars orbiter mission. Integrates optical sensors, gyroscopes, spacecraft attitude control, sensor fusion, state estimation, and fast steering mirrors. Owns requirements, modeling, simulation, verification, flight software interfaces, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and on-orbit performance support across the mission lifecycle.

Responsible for avionics systems engineering across spacecraft design, integration, testing, launch, and operations. Defines system architectures, interfaces, requirements, budgets, fault tolerance, verification plans, and autonomous behaviors. Supports vehicle health monitoring, troubleshooting, risk assessment, configuration management, reliability improvements, and production process development. Collaborates cross-functionally, mentors engineers, and travels up to 10% to launch sites and test facilities.