Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead reliability and quality engineering for rocket structures across design, manufacturing, testing, and launch. Responsibilities include drawing standardization, DFM, configuration control, work-instruction review, process development, build verification, nonconformance management, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, as-built verification, inspection initiatives, and cross-functional quality improvements. The role partners closely with engineering, additive manufacturing, production, test, and launch teams to establish scalable reliability processes for the Terran R launch vehicle.

Supports primary structure assembly on the shop floor, removes production barriers, improves manufacturing processes, creates work instructions and specifications, standardizes operations, and provides design-for-manufacturing feedback. Collaborates with design, manufacturing, reliability, production, and vendor teams during prototype and flight builds. Requires hands-on aerospace assembly experience, strong engineering fundamentals, and knowledge of drilling, trimming, fastening, machining, inspection, and GD&T.

Develop and maintain distributed spacecraft ground control software in Elixir, including satellite command and control, mission planning, mission data processing, and data analysis systems. Participate in architecture, design, and code reviews while collaborating across engineering disciplines. The role involves solving greenfield problems involving resilient, fault-tolerant, concurrent, and real-time distributed systems.

Embed with test operations to develop and enforce safety procedures and hazard analyses for propulsion, fluids, mechanical, and high-energy tests. Serve as on-site safety authority, conduct test readiness reviews, oversee hazardous material handling and compliance (DOT, EPA, OSHA), lead incident investigations, manage emergency response planning, provide safety training, perform exposure monitoring and audits, and interface with regulatory and range safety authorities.

Embedded Software Engineering Intern developing Rust systems software for Linux userspace and integrating industrial hardware. Responsibilities include building hardware abstraction layers, communicating with sensors and controllers, debugging across software and hardware, using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes, writing tests, and participating in code reviews. The role offers hands-on experience with low-level programming, communication protocols, reliability, and safety-critical systems.

Build and maintain Hardware-in-the-Loop testing systems, write Python automation, integrate test equipment and hardware, and contribute to CI and testing infrastructure. Diagnose failures across software, hardware, and infrastructure while improving automated test reliability, speed, and scalability. The intern will collaborate with software, embedded, and hardware engineers, document testing practices, and gain experience integrating software with real and simulated mission-critical hardware.

Work on software and hardware integrations for aerospace, automotive, energy, and manufacturing customers. Responsibilities include writing production code, building monitoring tools and dashboards, integrating software with test stands and physical hardware, troubleshooting deployments, and supporting customer engineering teams. The intern will develop and test hardware-interfacing software, collaborate with software and forward-deployed engineers, and occasionally travel to customer sites.

Build and improve full-stack software for engineers operating mission-critical hardware. Responsibilities include developing React and TypeScript/JavaScript interfaces, contributing to backend services and APIs, creating reliable data flows, debugging across systems, writing tested code, and collaborating on greenfield products. The intern will work closely with software engineers and operators while gaining experience across frontend, backend, databases, and hardware-connected systems.

Hands-on intern supporting customer test-stand deployments, test infrastructure, dashboards, automation, data acquisition, telemetry, hardware validation, and troubleshooting across software, networking, firmware, hardware, and physical systems. The role includes test campaigns, customer collaboration, training, documentation, and product improvement feedback. Occasional customer-site travel is required.

Design and develop ASIC, FPGA, and mixed digital systems for aerospace and defense programs. Responsibilities include requirements and architecture support, HDL/RTL development, simulation, debugging, synthesis, FPGA implementation, timing closure, CDC analysis, verification collaboration, integration, and system troubleshooting. Lead and Senior engineers provide technical leadership, subsystem ownership, mentoring, and cross-functional coordination.

Develop and execute ASIC, FPGA, and SoC design verification activities using simulation, SystemVerilog, UVM, coverage analysis, debugging, requirements traceability, reusable verification infrastructure, and UVCs. Support integration and system-level investigations, contribute to coverage closure, communicate risks and dependencies, and progressively own verification scope of moderate complexity. Level II engineers develop independence, while Level III engineers independently manage assigned verification scope.

Designs and supports ASIC, FPGA, and mixed digital systems for aerospace and defense programs. Responsibilities include requirements development, architecture support, HDL/RTL development, simulation, debugging, synthesis, FPGA implementation, timing analysis, verification collaboration, integration, troubleshooting, and technical status communication. The role may involve owning functional blocks, supporting subsystem efforts, and contributing to cross-functional technical leadership depending on experience level.

Supports the design, analysis, development, verification, and operation of space-based communications systems. Performs RF link analysis, communications capacity calculations, waveform analysis, mathematical modeling, and system requirements evaluation. Helps optimize system architectures and integrate technical, operational, safety, reliability, security, and certification factors. Develops or uses analytical tools and simulations to demonstrate compliance with system requirements. This is a fully onsite first-shift role with occasional travel.

Develops and verifies satellite ground systems for Boeing’s MILSATCOM program. Responsibilities include requirements analysis and decomposition, systems architecture, interface design, integration and testing, verification, demonstrations, and test documentation. The role supports C2 software development in an agile environment, requirements and risk management, system-of-systems analysis, and customer delivery. This is a fully onsite position requiring an active U.S. Secret clearance and U.S. person status.

Design and analyze satellite constellations using STK, orbital mechanics, coverage analysis, and system-of-systems trade studies. Evaluate scheduling and allocation of time, bandwidth, power, and storage resources across multi-vehicle systems. Integrate subsystem constraints, review code, use configuration management tools, develop visualizations, and present technical recommendations. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo and requires an active U.S. Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Designs and documents spacecraft payload mechanical structures and interiors using 3D CAD tools. Develops RF waveguide and cable routing, coordinates requirements across engineering groups, supports suppliers and manufacturing, assists with testing and production, and investigates anomalies and corrective actions. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo and requires U.S. Top Secret/SCI clearance eligibility and U.S. citizenship.

Design and configure satellite structures, mechanisms, interfaces, and deployable systems. Perform layout, mass properties, and first-order structural analyses; develop structural models; support material procurement, manufacturing processes, qualification testing, and troubleshooting. Produce part and assembly drawings for spacecraft operations while meeting subsystem schedules and deliverables. The role is fully onsite, requires U.S. Person status, and requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Develops, tests, maintains, and optimizes non-embedded Java and React software for classified defense programs. Responsibilities include translating customer requirements into designs, developing architectures and integrations, debugging issues, supporting users, improving software processes, and conducting research and development. The role uses Agile methodologies, DevOps tools, CI/CD pipelines, Linux and Windows environments, and AWS, while maintaining compliance with software quality, safety, security, and regulatory standards.

Leads systems architecture development for a rapid-development aerospace program. Responsibilities include managing system requirements, architecture artifacts, ConOps, interface control documents, MBSE models, traceability, trade studies, risk assessments, and integration, verification, and validation support. Collaborates with software, hardware, testing, and product teams while communicating technical progress to stakeholders. The role is fully onsite in Seal Beach, California, requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance, and involves up to 10% domestic travel.

Designs, develops, integrates, and validates automated test systems for space and defense electronics. Responsibilities include software architecture, instrument drivers, test sequencing, data acquisition, analysis, user interfaces, lab integration, troubleshooting, documentation, and build/test infrastructure. The role collaborates with hardware engineers and supports power, digital, RF, and mixed-signal systems using C#, LabVIEW, TestStand, Python, and MATLAB. This is a fully onsite position with up to 10% domestic travel and Top Secret/SCI clearance requirements.

Design, fabricate, operate, and maintain Terran R launch pad propellant and gas infrastructure. Perform fluid-system modeling, pipe stress analysis, drawings, component selection, and work instructions. Lead facility construction activation, commissioning, and initial operations while solving complex cross-disciplinary technical problems. The role requires hands-on hardware experience, project management, technical leadership, and knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and pipe stress.

Designs, analyzes, tests, and supports manufacturing of primary and secondary rocket structures for Relativity Space’s Terran R vehicle. Owns components from requirements through production, including load-path conceptualization, structural sizing, CAD design, drawing release, hardware test campaigns, and manufacturing process development. Uses NX/TeamCenter, Nastran, ANSYS, and hand calculations while collaborating across engineering and production teams.

Design, analyze, manufacture, and test rocket mechanisms including stage separation, payload deployment, landing gear, and aerodynamic actuation systems. The role covers full-cycle engineering, trade studies, requirements definition, structural analysis, subsystem integration, additive manufacturing, and hardware testing. The engineer collaborates with structures, avionics, fluids, vehicle design, test, loads, and manufacturing teams while leading projects to completion on schedule and within budget.

Owns system-level design and integration for complex rocket mechanisms, including thrust vector control. Defines requirements, CONOPS, verification plans, and test criteria; leads cross-functional collaboration across mechanical, actuator, GNC, avionics, and software teams. Coordinates design, manufacturing, integration, and testing while managing technical risks, schedules, and flight readiness. Provides hands-on support through test fixture design, sensor specification, automation, and root-cause investigations.

Design, analyze, manufacture, and test rocket mechanisms including stage separation, payload deployment, aero control systems, and landing gear. Lead trade studies, define requirements, review loads and materials, integrate subsystems, and collaborate with structures, avionics, manufacturing, additive, and test teams. Own full-cycle hardware projects while delivering on schedule and budget.