Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Ensures software development processes, lifecycle activities, and products comply with approved standards and plans. Participates from proposal through delivery, identifies noncompliance, supports root-cause analysis and corrective actions, evaluates supplier software performance, coordinates quality-engineering support, and analyzes quality metrics and risks. The role requires collaboration with program teams and customers to improve software quality and maintain first-time quality practices.

Quality Engineer responsible for improving spacecraft and product manufacturing reliability. Partners with design and manufacturing teams to develop quality plans, inspection processes, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives. Investigates production, test, and flight failures; manages nonconforming products; supports root-cause analysis, rework, audits, and Lean production systems. The role requires engineering documentation skills, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to obtain a U.S. Secret clearance.

Designs and develops analog and power electronics hardware for satellite bus units. Responsibilities include requirements definition, circuit modeling, analysis, testing, verification, technical production support, trade studies, and lifecycle engineering support. The engineer collaborates with digital teams and works onsite with minimal supervision to develop reliable satellite power conditioning, control, and supply systems.

Develop RF and electrophysics architectures, requirements, simulations, trade studies, gain-loss budgets, test procedures, and validation plans for aerospace and defense systems. The engineer supports RF product development throughout the lifecycle, including qualification, production, and environmental performance analysis. This fully onsite role requires U.S. citizenship, eligibility for a Top Secret clearance, a bachelor’s degree, and at least five years of related experience. Travel may be required up to 10%.

Develop, test, debug, maintain, and integrate embedded software with specialized hardware for avionics mission systems. Responsibilities include improving system efficiency and stability, supporting real-time software, and meeting safety and regulatory standards. Preferred experience includes Matlab/Simulink, motion planning, estimation, control systems, DevOps automation, and Agile development.

Leads the design, development, integration, testing, debugging, and maintenance of embedded real-time software for avionics systems. Oversees requirements traceability, architecture, code reviews, hardware-software integration, automated test strategies, cybersecurity, software quality, supplier performance, and embedded software project management. The role requires leadership across engineering disciplines, compliance with safety and regulatory standards, and expertise in DevSecOps and developer productivity.

Designs, analyzes, tests, and supports satellite electrical power and harness subsystems throughout the spacecraft lifecycle. Responsibilities include requirements development, verification planning, battery and power regulation modeling, harness analysis, power budgeting, architecture and sizing, fault-tolerance assessments, anomaly resolution, and cross-functional integration. The role supports satellite development and sustaining engineering, including solar array sizing, battery capacity determination, electromagnetic compatibility, mission operations, and root cause analysis.

Develops and integrates Special Test Equipment software for satellite hardware and subsystem testing. Responsibilities include object-oriented and embedded real-time development, instrument interfaces, test architecture, software verification, automated test orchestration, hardware/software troubleshooting, and test framework improvements. The role works closely with spacecraft telemetry, command, RF testing, and mission operations in a fully onsite aerospace environment.

Performs structural analysis for spacecraft and mechanical systems, including finite element modeling, modal and static analysis, load generation, stress analysis, and environmental testing support. The role also supports spacecraft design, configuration, mass properties, materials and manufacturing decisions, drawing reviews, qualification testing, data reduction, and technical documentation. This is a fully onsite entry-level position requiring U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a Top Secret security clearance.

Develops and verifies vehicle management flight software for aerospace and autonomy platforms. Responsibilities include translating requirements into software designs, integrating functions, building simulation and hardware-in-the-loop environments, creating automated test frameworks, executing manual and automated V&V activities, supporting CI/CD, investigating defects, maintaining technical documentation, and coordinating verification across multifunctional teams. The role is fully onsite and requires an active U.S. Top Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and up to 10% travel.

Designs and analyzes pressure components and assemblies for Terran R launch vehicle fluid and propulsion systems. Responsibilities include fluid, thermal, and structural analysis; CAD design; CFD and FEA; development and execution of qualification tests; and trade studies supporting system architectures. The role requires collaboration across design, manufacturing, testing, and vehicle teams in an on-site factory environment.

Owns vehicle fluid subsystem architecture for launch vehicles, including schematics, control schemes, component selection, sizing, and fluid and thermal analyses. Leads design and manufacturing reviews, defines validation testing, supports integrated vehicle testing and launch operations, and applies thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer expertise. Requires Python or similar programming for scientific computing and automated test or simulation data analysis.

Develop spacecraft thermal designs and perform integrated thermal analyses, including heater and radiator sizing, coatings, detailed mission analysis, and board-level thermal predictions. Design thermal control components, coordinate subsystem interfaces, support thermal vacuum and thermal cycle testing, correlate models, and assist with on-orbit operations. The role collaborates with multidisciplinary engineering teams to rapidly develop and produce space systems.

Owns the full design lifecycle for Terran R flight structures, including conceptualization, load-path development, structural analysis, sizing, drawing release, hardware testing, manufacturing support, and production handoff. Designs components using NX/TeamCenter and performs analysis with Nastran, ANSYS, finite element methods, and hand calculations. The role requires ownership from requirements through production, collaboration across teams, technical documentation, and presenting design recommendations.

Owns the full design lifecycle for Terran R rocket structures, including conceptualization, structural analysis, sizing, CAD design, drawing release, testing, manufacturing support, and production ownership. The role covers thrust structures, propellant tanks, interstages, fairings, and related flight hardware. Requires collaboration across engineering and manufacturing teams, technical documentation, and project leadership in a fast-paced aerospace environment.

Own integrated vehicle fluid architecture and certification for customer-specific launch missions. Translate customer and regulatory requirements into fluid system designs, lead cross-functional interfaces, define testing scopes, develop operational concepts, and resolve system-level issues across engineering, manufacturing, operations, customers, and regulatory stakeholders.

Design and develop rocket vehicle structures, assemblies, and components from concept through release. Perform packaging assessments, tolerance stack analyses, fastener selection, gapping and shimming strategies, GD&T drafting, BOM and configuration management, and design-for-manufacturing integration. Use NX/Teamcenter to create flight hardware designs, support fabrication, and present technical recommendations while collaborating with manufacturing engineering teams.

Design and implement ASICs for mission-critical aerospace and space applications. Responsibilities include synthesis, static timing analysis, timing constraint management, floorplanning, power and timing convergence, equivalence checking, ECOs, chip integration, signoff, tapeout, and automation. The role collaborates with RTL, verification, DFT, architecture, and external backend teams while troubleshooting cross-domain timing issues and improving physical design methodologies.

Develops and executes software test plans, test cases, and automated scripts for spacecraft flight software. Tests software on flight hardware and emulated environments, debugs failures, investigates anomalies, analyzes results, verifies defects, and recommends corrective actions. Owns and optimizes GitLab CI/CD pipelines while maintaining test documentation and supporting mission objectives.

Designs and develops digital circuit and unit hardware for aerospace applications, including requirements, architecture, modeling, analysis, testing, verification, and production support. Leads technical reviews, supplier management recommendations, performance tracking, lifecycle engineering support, and future product research. The role requires close collaboration across satellite electronics teams and is fully onsite in El Segundo, California.

Designs, develops, tests, integrates, documents, and maintains multi-tiered software supporting space vehicle command and control. Responsibilities include Java and related technology development, requirements analysis, debugging, system integration, test planning, verification and validation, Agile process improvement, and user support. The role is fully onsite, requires an active Top Secret clearance, and may involve up to 10% travel.

Develops and integrates hardware, simulation software, algorithms, interfaces, and test plans for aerospace system integration laboratories and flight management simulators. Leads requirements analysis, architecture, software and hardware design, testing, milestone reviews, supplier integration, fielded-system support, and technology research. The role supports multiple airplane programs and requires expertise in software systems engineering, embedded software, Agile delivery, system testing, and technical leadership.

Develop ASIC and FPGA verification environments using SystemVerilog and UVM. Build reusable, self-checking testbenches, coverage models, drivers, monitors, predictors, and scoreboards. Execute regression testing, coverage closure, waveform debugging, FPGA prototyping, and hardware integration. Collaborate with design and systems engineering teams to define verifiable specifications and align verification strategies with program goals.

Design and validate DFT architectures for mission-critical ASICs, including TAP/JTAG, IJTAG, Boundary Scan, MBIST, scan compression, ATPG, and silicon debug. Integrate DFT features into chip design flows, optimize test coverage, develop verification artifacts, support timing and bring-up activities, and collaborate with internal teams and external partners on interfaces and security requirements. The role is fully onsite, with occasional travel and after-hours meetings during critical milestones.

Designs and develops RF, digital, and optical satellite communication systems. Responsibilities include creating and verifying digital signal-processing architectures, defining requirements and interfaces, developing link budgets, conducting performance analyses and trade studies, building prototypes, supporting integration and simulations, and contributing to ASIC/FPGA design verification, procurement, reviews, and unit sell-offs. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California and requires U.S. citizenship, export-control eligibility, and a Secret clearance after starting.