Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Design, build, integrate, and support electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) for vehicle integration, engine testing, and launch operations. Own EGSE hardware lifecycle, create schematics and ICDs, troubleshoot and validate systems, collaborate with avionics/propulsion/software/test teams, ensure safety and reliability, and drive GSE process improvements. Mentor junior engineers for senior candidates.

Design, build, and operate optomechanical test setups for spacecraft components. Own test assets and programs, coordinate vendors, perform test setups, inspections, troubleshooting, data acquisition, and environmental qualification testing to rapidly develop flight hardware.

Lead a team designing spacecraft antenna and feed-network systems (1–30 GHz) from concept through prototype, lab characterization, and on-orbit support. Integrate with RF, avionics, and mechanical teams, optimize for mass/thermal/power constraints, perform EM simulations and desense analysis, and debug real-world antenna performance.

Design, build, and operate fluid, mechanical, and electrical test systems for liquid rocket propulsion and spacecraft hardware. Own test assets and programs, coordinate vendors, perform test setup and troubleshooting, run test operations, and collaborate across teams to rapidly develop flight hardware.

Lead design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure for integration, test, and engineering environments. Oversee networks, compute, storage, lab infrastructure, and platform engineering. Manage teams, enforce standards, drive IaC and automation, ensure availability and time-synchronized operations, coordinate test stand deployments and facility readiness, and maintain monitoring, incident response, and secure engineering data practices aligned with compliance and zero-trust requirements.

Manage and standardize PCB component libraries (symbols, footprints, 3D models, metadata) for avionics/RF flight PCBA designs. Ensure manufacturability and IPC compliance, validate new components, mentor engineers, and collaborate with electrical, mechanical, systems, and manufacturing teams to enable reliable, high-quality hardware development for space environments.

Lead design and implementation of pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) for an FSO laser terminal. Develop algorithms and control loops for FSMs/precision actuators, create pointing budgets, build HIL testbeds, prototype and validate PAT performance, and support optical alignment and system testing across optics, photonics, and modem teams.

Lead design, installation, operation, and maintenance of cryogenic and industrial gas systems for spacecraft manufacturing and testing. Own system specifications, P&IDs, procedures, commissioning, troubleshooting, vendor management, and cross-functional coordination while ensuring compliance with safety codes and standards.

Lead design, analysis, and tuning of robust flight control algorithms for upper stages and landers. Produce stability analyses and verification data, contribute to GNC flight and simulation software, use SITL/HITL for evaluation, create GNC tools, mentor engineers, and communicate designs across teams to enable propulsive missions.

Design, analyze, build, and test turbomachinery for liquid rocket engines including 1-D sizing and detailed flowpath design for inducers, impellers, turbines, and secondary fluid paths; perform structural and rotor-dynamics analyses; ensure manufacturability and support turbopump assembly, manufacturing, and testing.