Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Lead recruiting operations by managing coordinators, optimizing ATS and recruiting tech, designing interview scorecards and training, streamlining scheduling and offer/onboarding workflows, tracking metrics, and driving cross-functional process improvements to scale hiring.

Lead aerodynamic design and analysis for fixed-wing and missile-class vehicles, perform CFD across subsonic to supersonic regimes, develop aerodynamic databases and reduced-order models, support wind tunnel and flight testing, correlate test and CFD data, and partner with GNC and other teams to optimize vehicle performance from concept to deployment.

Lead architecture, development, and deployment of high-fidelity hardware-in-the-loop test environments for effector platforms. Define HIL strategy and fidelity, integrate hardware and simulation models, develop automated test frameworks and CI/CD validation, support debugging and system validation, and transition HIL-validated systems to flight test while guiding engineering teams across programs.

Lead design and development of directional communications and data-link systems for Coherent Distributed Networks. Drive RF/beamforming, time-transfer, GPS-denied positioning, DSP and radar algorithm development, prototype hardware, simulations, field tests, and mentor junior engineers. Work onsite in El Segundo or San Diego.

Lead design and implement guidance and navigation software for a clean-sheet airframe, support airframe design, integrate software on flight hardware, and develop real-time embedded systems within COTS autopilot frameworks. Work on-site in Los Angeles collaborating in small Agile teams.

Lead design and implement guidance and navigation software for UAS on commercial autopilot frameworks, support airframe design and system integration, develop real-time embedded software and hardware interfaces, and work on-site with small engineering teams.

Serve as mechanical authority for integrating ruggedized electronics, effectors, and mission hardware into ground- and sea-mobile platforms. Own end-to-end mechanical design, CAD models, analyses, prototyping, qualification testing, production transition, and sustainment while leading cross-disciplinary integration and interfacing with customers and suppliers.

Lead design and implementation of guidance and navigation software for UAS on a clean-sheet airframe. Develop real-time embedded software on microcontrollers and Linux (Nvidia Jetson, AMD/Xilinx), integrate vendor drivers and sensors (EO/IR, radar), support airframe design and system integration on flight hardware, and work within Agile CI/CD processes on-site in Los Angeles.

Design and implement advanced radar signal-processing algorithms for detection, tracking, and classification. Develop radar modes, simulations, and system models; optimize for real-time/embedded targets (FPGAs/DSPs). Lead field tests and data collection, analyze performance, contribute to system requirements, document results, and mentor junior engineers. Full-time onsite in Hawthorne, CA.

Partner with the CPO to drive company-wide operating rhythm, OKRs, cross-functional initiatives, and business performance. Prepare executive materials, build dashboards, align teams, and ensure accountability to turn strategy into measurable outcomes.