Top Engineering Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Leads development of MILSATCOM ground mission planning systems, including requirements analysis, architecture and interface design, integration, verification, testing, and customer demonstrations. Coordinates system performance requirements, risk and opportunity management, technical analyses, quality attributes, and cross-functional issue resolution. Collaborates with suppliers, contractors, government customers, and integrated product teams while mentoring engineering staff and leading technical reviews and documentation. The role is fully onsite in Seal Beach, California, requires an active Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and domestic travel as needed.

Leads spacecraft mechanical engineering efforts, establishes technical direction, and develops processes, standards, tools, and design guides. Supports engineering authorities with technical problem-solving and verification testing, provides guidance during design reviews, customer meetings, failure analyses, and trade studies, and audits programs and suppliers for improvement opportunities. Mentors mechanical engineers and advances emerging spacecraft mechanical design technologies.

Designs and integrates complex mechanical systems, supports architecture trade studies, and develops, validates, and verifies system requirements. The role creates verification and qualification plans, coordinates component and analysis teams, presents technical findings, oversees testing, and maintains traceable technical documentation. It requires aerospace systems engineering expertise, knowledge of mechanical and thermal disciplines, requirements management tools, Model-Based Systems Engineering, and environmental testing experience. The position is hybrid in Torrance, California, with no relocation offered.

Designs, develops, integrates, and validates environmental control system models for commercial, business, regional, and military aircraft. Responsibilities include thermodynamic, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics analysis; ECS performance modeling and simulation; system and equipment requirements definition; model optimization and validation; stakeholder coordination; and integration test support, including test planning, execution, data review, and model calibration.

Administer and improve enterprise SaaS platforms supporting productivity, collaboration, identity, and employee access. Manage Okta integrations, SSO, provisioning, roles, licensing, lifecycle workflows, access reviews, and least-privilege controls. Automate integrations using scripts, APIs, and webhooks; provide Tier 2/3 escalation support; monitor platform health and incidents; maintain documentation; and coordinate with security, IAM, application owners, vendors, and business stakeholders.

Defines architectures for spacecraft RF systems and establishes organization-wide design, testing, and performance standards. Develops RF analysis tools and methodologies, leads complex trade studies, resolves cross-system EMI/EMC issues, and coordinates multi-team technical programs. Provides mentorship, drives cross-organizational alignment, supports suppliers and subcontracts, and delivers program-level communication outcomes. Requires extensive aerospace RF experience, including spacecraft architectures, link budgets, antenna systems, communication protocols, and advanced RF simulation.

Leads enterprise RF architecture and strategy for spacecraft communication systems across multiple missions and frequency bands. Oversees link performance, EMI/EMC strategy, verification, payload qualification, regulatory coordination, and technical standards. Influences executives, represents the company externally, drives innovative RF capabilities, and develops senior engineering talent across the organization.

Develops, validates, and improves manufacturing test assets and processes for mechanical, electrical, and pneumatic aerospace assemblies. Leads test system and tooling design, work instructions, training, safety compliance, shop-floor troubleshooting, test data analysis, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions. Collaborates with design, manufacturing, production, supply chain, and quality teams to deliver scalable, reliable testing for rocket hardware.

Own ASIC, FPGA, and SoC verification activities across aerospace programs. Develop SystemVerilog and UVM environments, reusable verification infrastructure, and UVCs; support planning, simulation, debugging, integration, requirements traceability, coverage, metrics-driven closure, and delivery. Lead verification efforts, troubleshoot across RTL and system boundaries, mentor engineers, assess completeness, and coordinate technical workstreams. The role is fully onsite and requires eligibility for a U.S. Secret clearance.

Supports satellite and constellation autonomy across the mission lifecycle. Defines and validates fault detection, isolation, and response architectures; maintains spacecraft states, modes, and transitions; analyzes thresholds and fault responses; contributes to CONOPS and technology trades; performs end-to-end autonomy testing; and supports on-console mission operations for on-orbit spacecraft.

Entry-level systems engineer supporting spacecraft command and data handling networks for autonomous navigation satellite programs. Responsibilities include requirements definition and flowdown, subsystem design, interface development, trade studies, system performance analysis, integration, verification and validation, technical issue resolution, and mission assurance. The role collaborates across software, hardware, cybersecurity, communications security, and spacecraft testing disciplines, and requires eligibility for a U.S. Secret clearance.

The role involves designing and developing satellite communication systems, conducting performance analysis, and supporting ASIC and FPGA system design.

Develop fault protection and autonomy architectures for first-of-kind spacecraft and missions. Responsibilities include systems integration, redundancy and fault-tolerance design, failure-mode analysis, onboard software requirements, spacecraft safing and recovery procedures, customer coordination, technical review presentations, and occasional anomaly on-call support. The role spans spacecraft and ground systems and requires collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Drive spacecraft product reliability by partnering with design and manufacturing to create quality plans, implement Lean test/inspection processes, investigate and contain production and flight failures, perform root cause analysis, and lead continuous improvement to improve manufacturability and reduce recurring non-conformances.

Designs, integrates, verifies, and tests satellite ground systems. Develops requirements, interface documents, architecture, test plans, and reports. Performs system analyses for reliability, safety, maintainability, security, and affordability. Works in agile teams, mentors staff, and supports requirements management, system integration, verification, and customer delivery to ensure mission success.

Lead astrodynamics engineering for national security space missions, including orbit analysis, trajectory optimization, orbital maneuver planning, mission design, and on-orbit operations support. Serve as the astrodynamics Responsible Engineering Authority, define tools and processes, oversee subsystem engineering, interface with satellite and systems teams, and provide technical leadership and mentoring.

Develop and implement manufacturing processes for Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE), author work instructions, troubleshoot test-system non-conformances, perform DFM reviews for harnessing and ground support equipment, and collaborate with Quality to ensure process compliance for satellite production and test systems.

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.

Lead customer-facing satellite operations engineer responsible for 24/7 support, anomaly response, investigations, and RCCA. Acts as primary Boeing contact for commercial, civil, and DoD satellite customers, provides systems-level guidance across propulsion, GNC, avionics, and power, manages customer portfolios, communicates with stakeholders, and drives operational improvements and feedback into spacecraft design.

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 operational concepts and system architectures for experimental space vehicles and missions. Leads mission design, systems integration, trade studies, functional decomposition, stakeholder coordination, and architecture development across spacecraft and ground segments. Uses MBSE tools to capture operational concepts and system architectures, presents technical reviews, and supports first-of-kind autonomous space programs in multidisciplinary teams.

Coordinates mission assurance across satellite programs from concept through operations, managing risk, discrepancies, design reviews, testing, anomaly resolution, and mission operations. Provides electrical power, circuit design, and satellite electronics expertise; evaluates qualification and acceptance testing; develops analytical or simulation tools; and coordinates technical findings with engineering teams and leadership. The role is fully onsite and supports national security space missions.

Designs and analyzes space electronics packaging, mechanical structures, and PCBs across the product lifecycle. Performs structural, thermal, dynamics, and vibration analyses; conducts trade studies, testing, validation, root-cause investigations, and corrective actions. Collaborates with electrical, satellite, supplier, and multidisciplinary engineering teams, documents compliance, supports make-or-buy decisions, tracks technical performance, and evaluates emerging technologies. The role is fully onsite in El Segundo, California, with potential relocation support.

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.

Derive radiation environments for satellite missions, evaluate TID and SEE requirements, support electronic parts selection, develop test plans, design test harnesses, coordinate hardware procurement, and analyze test results. The role supports program, product, and systems engineering teams and requires full-time onsite work, U.S. person status, and eligibility to obtain a security clearance.