Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Manufactures and integrates environmental control and life support fluid hardware for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include defining assembly processes, authoring work instructions, supporting testing, resolving manufacturing and tolerance issues, designing tooling, managing nonconformances, improving production metrics, training technicians, and supporting supplier readiness. The role works hands-on with water, air, thermal, and pressurized gas systems in a shop-floor environment.

Provides laboratory support and performs materials testing for metallic and non-metallic materials. Develops and executes test plans, creates new testing capabilities, writes procedures, interprets engineering specifications, and maintains laboratory equipment and workspaces. Collaborates with engineers, technicians, suppliers, vendors, and customers while ensuring compliance with safety, quality, regulatory, and aerospace standards. Responsibilities also include 5S activities, consumables inventory management, and receiving and shipping goods.

Develops and scales technical solutions, APIs, SDKs, and partner-facing tools for complex integrations. Collaborates with Product, Engineering, and Sales to deliver partner solutions, troubleshoot technical issues, optimize performance, and support launch strategies. Uses product usage metrics to identify insights and improve adoption. Requires programming proficiency, experience with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations, strong debugging and analytical skills, and at least two years of software development experience or an equivalent advanced-degree pathway.

Own build reliability for flight avionics hardware across its lifecycle. Lead readiness criteria, manufacturing process maturation, quality reviews, risk retirement, root-cause investigations, containment, corrective actions, cost reduction, and cross-functional alignment across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and mission assurance. Analyze build data, improve process controls, support mission-critical events, and mentor teams while ensuring reliable production and flight readiness for human-rated space station systems.

Designs, builds, commissions, and troubleshoots automated avionics test systems for human-rated space stations. Develops component and system test cases, validates results, leads design reviews, documents systems, and supports operator handover. The role also contributes to automated test framework architecture, Hardware-in-the-Loop interfaces, and team-wide debugging and coaching. It requires collaboration with responsible engineers and subject matter experts across spacecraft development.

Owns end-to-end thermal control system test campaigns for human-rated space station hardware, including test planning, GSE design, assembly, instrumentation, execution, data analysis, and closeout. Performs hands-on testing of fluid and thermal components, resolves technical issues through root-cause analysis, supports design and test reviews, collaborates with engineering and manufacturing teams, and mentors junior engineers.

Designs and owns high-reliability crew avionics hardware for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include electrical specifications, trade studies, multilayer PCB design, schematic capture, signal and power integrity analysis, simulation, hardware testing, troubleshooting, environmental qualification, documentation, and cross-functional integration. The engineer supports flight hardware from initial design through testing, integration, operation, and decommissioning while prioritizing astronaut and employee safety.

Plans and directs spacecraft integration and environmental tests, manages test plans and schedules, improves assembly procedures, and supports vehicle-level verification. The engineer collaborates with engineering, manufacturing, quality, and technician teams to resolve production issues, document nonconformances, implement corrective actions, and provide test direction, status updates, and go/no-go recommendations. The role requires hands-on hardware integration, test execution, and occasional evening or weekend work for mission milestones.

Develops and optimizes manufacturing processes, equipment, procedures, and work instructions for spacecraft thermal and environmental control systems. Responsibilities include designing and testing pressurized ground equipment, troubleshooting pneumatic, hydraulic, oxygen, refrigerant, and control systems, supporting supplier processes, performing hands-on assembly and integration, resolving manufacturing issues, and improving quality, efficiency, and manufacturability.

Develop and optimize manufacturing processes for avionics systems and wire harnesses used in aerospace products. Responsibilities include creating assembly procedures, resolving manufacturing issues through root cause analysis, coordinating with suppliers and quality teams, performing hands-on assembly and testing, supporting design reviews, and driving continuous improvement. The role also involves environmental test fixture design, avionics manufacturing documentation, and compliance with applicable industry standards.

Designs and develops spacecraft solar arrays, including requirements, architecture trades, materials and vendor selection, photovoltaic manufacturing processes, qualification testing, and lifecycle troubleshooting. The engineer integrates with systems, power electronics, structures, thermal, and mission assurance teams; supports design reviews, drawing checks, technical documentation, and NASA deliverables. The role requires engineering design and verification experience with photovoltaics or comparable composite structures, with space industry and advanced analysis software experience preferred.

Develops and optimizes thermal control systems for human-rated space stations and spacecraft. Responsibilities include requirements development, thermal analysis, design documentation, hardware drawing reviews, cross-functional engineering coordination, customer reporting, and planning and execution of subsystem thermal vacuum testing. The role also evaluates cost and schedule impacts and supports thermal system lifecycle activities from concept through operations.

Design and qualify electro-mechanical flight, development, and test wire harnesses for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include electrical architecture, wiring diagrams, connector layouts, 3D NX CAD routing, power and signal analysis, thermal and vibration testing, documentation, production integration, and trade studies focused on capability, mass, and cost optimization.

Supports the manufacturing, assembly, integration, and testing of avionics hardware and wire harnesses for human-rated space systems. Responsibilities include developing manufacturing processes, creating work instructions, designing tooling, resolving production issues through root cause analysis, reviewing supplier processes, supporting quality controls, and providing design-for-manufacturing feedback. The role also contributes to new product introduction, continuous improvement, design reviews, and team mentoring.

Leads reliability engineering for Haven-1 avionics, RF, and power systems. Responsibilities include FMEA and fault-tree analysis, design and test reviews, verification and validation, reliability risk reduction, engineering standards, configuration management, change control, and hardware integration. The role guides design decisions, qualification and acceptance testing, manufacturing readiness, and human-rated space station reliability throughout the development lifecycle.

Design and develop thermal control systems and components for human-rated artificial-gravity space stations. Lead design trades, fluid analyses, manufacturing process iteration, testing, design reviews, systems integration, and project delivery through production, launch, and orbit insertion. Ensure designs are manufacturable, reliable, and optimized through structural analysis, failure investigation, trade studies, and collaboration with suppliers, customers, technicians, and interdisciplinary engineering teams.

Designs and validates avionics enclosures, mounts, batteries, and crew-interface components for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include mechanical design, thermal and structural analysis, electronics packaging, requirements validation, testing, technical documentation, assembly drawings, and hardware-build support. The role partners closely with electrical engineering and supports mission-critical avionics development in extreme environments.

Design and develop thermal control systems and components for human-rated space stations, from design trades through production, launch, and orbit insertion. Perform fluid analyses, systems engineering, testing, manufacturing process development, trade studies, and structural analysis. Lead design reviews and coordinate with suppliers, customers, technicians, software, avionics, and mission operations teams to deliver reliable, manufacturable hardware.

Develops and executes avionics test campaigns for human-rated space station flight hardware. Responsibilities include writing and maintaining test procedures, planning and directing integration tests, evaluating safety and quality requirements, managing test schedules, assessing risks, resolving nonconformances, and exercising technical authority during testing events. The role collaborates with engineering teams, subject matter experts, and technicians to verify vehicle-level systems and transition designs into tested flight-ready hardware.

Develop and optimize manufacturing and assembly processes for avionics and wire harnesses. Create manufacturing plans and work instructions, perform hands-on assembly/integration/testing, resolve manufacturing issues via root-cause analysis, work with suppliers and QA, participate in design reviews, and drive continuous improvement.

Design and integrate rugged avionics enclosures, mounts, and brackets for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include electronics packaging, interface documentation, requirements validation, thermal and structural analysis, engineering drawings, configuration management, hardware builds, and environmental qualification testing. The role collaborates closely with electrical engineering teams throughout the flight-critical product lifecycle and supports mission-critical testing and integration.

Own thermal architecture, analysis, modeling, and validation for a high-power, constellation-ready spacecraft bus. Responsibilities include evaluating passive and active thermal-control approaches, sizing radiators, managing thermal budgets, selecting coatings and materials, planning TVAC campaigns, correlating models to test data, and supporting solar-array and avionics thermal design. The engineer will begin as the sole thermal specialist and build a team as spacecraft production scales.

Own end-to-end avionics box development for a scalable satellite bus, including make/buy/reuse decisions, schematic and layout, procurement, PCBA fabrication, board bring-up, radiation and environmental qualification, harness design, flight builds, and production-rate design. Coordinate parallel hardware developments, testing, design reviews, and collaboration with Haven-1 avionics teams.

Guide the design, verification, validation, and reliability of thermal fluids, environmental control, and life support systems for Haven-1. Lead FMEA, fault-tree analysis, design reviews, risk mitigation, test planning, configuration management, and engineering standards. Partner with hardware, manufacturing, software, and risk teams to ensure human-rated systems meet design intent, reliability goals, and qualification requirements throughout development and integration.

Design and integrate rugged avionics enclosures, mounts, and electronic packaging for human-rated space stations. Responsibilities include requirements validation, trade studies, thermal and structural analysis, engineering drawings, configuration management, test planning, qualification, and hardware integration. The role collaborates with electrical engineering teams throughout the flight and mission-critical avionics design lifecycle and supports hardware builds and testing in a dynamic environment.