Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Leads aerospace engineering change notifications and factory or supplier support activities for Phase 6 products. Performs design assessments, substantiation analyses, qualification and testing coordination, customer approval packages, and cross-functional integration with manufacturing, operations, quality, and engineering teams. Manages project cost, schedules, milestones, performance metrics, budgets, and risk mitigation while supporting product integrity and process improvements.

Lead technical strategy and hands-on development for Snap’s storage, caching, identity, and service infrastructure. Design and operate highly available distributed systems across AWS and GCP, drive multi-quarter initiatives, improve reliability, scalability, performance, cost efficiency, observability, and developer experience, and influence architecture across infrastructure and product teams. Mentor engineers, resolve complex technical challenges, and shape responsible AI applications for platform quality and engineering productivity.

Leads avionics survivability engineering for Terran R, covering EMC, radiation effects, and EEE component reliability. Establishes requirements, assesses risks, develops mitigations, and directs analysis, testing, qualification, and verification across vehicle systems. Coordinates multidisciplinary engineering teams and external stakeholders while ensuring compliance with aerospace and defense standards. Influences design decisions and oversees complex EMC, radiation, and component qualification programs from early development through flight.

Lead a small team designing custom avionics controllers for rocket propulsion, fluid, payload, and separation systems. Own the full hardware lifecycle from requirements and design through board bring-up, verification, qualification, production, integration, and vehicle operations. Apply mixed-signal, analog, power, and control electronics expertise while leading root-cause investigations, engineering processes, cross-functional integration, and team mentorship for mission-critical hardware.

Provides technical authority and lifecycle ownership for aerospace electric power products, including engine start controllers, generator controls, power distribution, and motor controllers. Leads product strategy, proposals, development, production, certification, design reviews, risk mitigation, field issue resolution, safety assessments, and corrective actions. Engages customers, suppliers, regulators, and internal functions while approving engineering processes and technical plans. Develops engineering talent through mentoring, training, knowledge transfer, and succession planning, and drives transformational improvements across commercial and military programs.

Designs and configures standards-based IP, WAN, LAN, and secure government or military network architectures. Evaluates routers, switches, encryption appliances, firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and cross-domain solutions. Supports Boeing network services, laboratory activities, and program network designs. Applies routing protocols, software-defined networking, cloud-based services, and open-source networking implementations. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, includes up to 10% domestic travel, and requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Designs, integrates, tests, debugs, and documents embedded real-time software for satellite systems. Responsibilities include hardware and flight software integration, cyber vulnerability analysis, cyber monitoring algorithm development, software safety and assurance, automated build and testing pipelines, and custom development tools. The engineer collaborates with flight software and product security teams to deliver reliable products on schedule and within cost targets.

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.

Lead satellite assembly, integration, and test activities through launch, develop and approve procedures, troubleshoot hardware/software integration, run environmental tests (EMI/C, Dynamics, TVAC), improve manufacturing throughput, monitor performance with statistical tools, and coordinate across programs, manufacturing, facilities, and quality to meet delivery targets.

Develop and maintain telemetry and command database schemas, data models, APIs, services, pipelines, and database-backed applications for spacecraft and flight-test systems. Translate engineering requirements into reliable data solutions, implement automated validation and testing, optimize database performance, troubleshoot data pipelines, support CI/CD and migrations, and collaborate with systems, flight software, test, database, and mission operations teams.

Performs structural analysis and finite element modeling for satellite systems, spaceflight hardware, and ground support equipment. Responsibilities include developing structural requirements, analytical methods, simulations, test plans, certification documentation, failure investigations, supplier support, and verification of structural integrity throughout the product lifecycle. The role also coordinates cross-functional engineering activities and improves analysis processes and tools.

Design and deliver special test equipment for space-grade power, digital, RF and mixed-signal systems. Perform circuit design, prototyping, integration, automated test software development, verification/qualification testing, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and support proposal/capture activities. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and recommend test equipment procurement.

Design and verify RF, digital, and optical satellite communication systems, develop and validate fixed-point multi-rate DSP architectures, perform link budgets and performance analysis, support ASIC/FPGA system design and prototype demonstrations, and lead integration, verification, and trade studies.

Designs, develops, integrates, and supports complex IT infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. Installs and configures operating systems, software, and hardware; administers and optimizes Linux and Windows hosts and servers; manages virtualization platforms; documents support procedures; contributes to information and operational support system design; and researches automated approaches to systems engineering. The role requires U.S. citizenship, eligibility for a Secret security clearance, and work at a facility requiring special access.

Build and own an end-to-end spacecraft hardware-in-the-loop test capability, including rack hardware, avionics integration, simulation, data acquisition, automated test frameworks, CI/regression pipelines, dashboards, and telemetry. Debug failures across hardware, software, interfaces, timing, communications, and test infrastructure. Lead spacecraft integration and validation through launch while coordinating with subsystem engineering teams.

Own the design, development, analysis, testing, and delivery of mechanical hardware for space science avionics platforms. Responsibilities include designing enclosures, mounting structures, thermal accommodations, and spacecraft interfaces; ensuring hardware survives launch and space environments; solving structural and thermal packaging challenges; rapidly prototyping and debugging hardware; and leading systems through qualification to flight readiness.

Own the design, development, qualification, and integration of high-performance spacecraft electronics for deep-space compute and storage. Lead architecture, prototyping, board bring-up, validation, and technology demonstrations while balancing compute capability with power, thermal, EMI, mechanical, reliability, and radiation constraints. Collaborate with science and software teams to integrate onboard and ground infrastructure and deliver flight-ready systems.

Design, build, and qualify high-performance spacecraft electronics for deep-space compute, storage, networking, and communications. Lead architecture, prototyping, bring-up, validation, and system integration while balancing power, thermal, EMI, mechanical, reliability, and radiation constraints. Collaborate with science and software teams to develop flight and ground systems, evaluate technologies, derisk interfaces, and validate performance. The role requires autonomous technical leadership in a fast-paced development environment.

Own the mechanical design, analysis, testing, and delivery of flight-ready hardware for space science avionics platforms. Develop enclosures, mounting structures, thermal accommodations, and spacecraft interfaces that withstand launch and space environments. Rapidly prototype and iterate designs, solve structural and thermal challenges, and lead systems through qualification and flight. Collaborate cross-functionally in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Own the design, development, integration, verification, and delivery of spacecraft avionics from concept through flight-qualified hardware. Lead avionics architecture, PCB design, harnessing, embedded system interfaces, testing, environmental qualification, component selection, supplier coordination, and technical documentation. Collaborate with propulsion, guidance and control, thermal, and software teams to build reliable avionics for deep-space missions while establishing technical standards and executing autonomously.

Own spacecraft avionics hardware from concept through flight, including system architecture, PCB design, harnessing, embedded interfaces, integration, verification, and environmental qualification. Collaborate with propulsion, guidance and control, thermal, software, suppliers, and internal stakeholders. Lead hardware builds, component selection, testing, documentation, and delivery for reliable deep-space missions.

Own and architect the frontend platform for a unified, safety-critical operator interface. Lead application shell, design system, shared data layer, frontend consolidation, performance optimization, real-time telemetry rendering, cross-team technical direction, and mentorship. Build data-intensive applications using advanced state management and streaming technologies.

Own the architecture, scalability, reliability, and delivery of complex software systems. Lead cross-functional technical initiatives, design AI-friendly APIs and agentic workflows, improve performance and cost efficiency, partner with product managers, mentor engineers, influence hiring, and drive engineering quality and technical direction with substantial autonomy.

Build and scale full-stack product features, backend services, APIs, integrations, and user-facing applications. Own projects from technical design through rollout, monitoring, and maintenance. Improve system reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and resilience while mentoring engineers and contributing to architecture and engineering standards. Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to solve ambiguous technical problems, and use AI-assisted development tools to improve software delivery.

Designs and develops integrated RF and wireless systems for Spectacles hardware. Responsibilities include creating schematics, overseeing PCB and flex layouts, developing prototypes, executing RF validation, debugging baseband and RF circuits, selecting components and chipsets, and documenting designs. The role collaborates with mechanical, software, industrial design, and supplier teams, and requires expertise in RF analysis, wireless standards, high-speed digital interfaces, simulation tools, and RF test equipment.