Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Own top-of-funnel recruiting for high-priority engineering roles by mapping talent markets, identifying passive candidates, building pipelines, conducting personalized outreach, and analyzing sourcing metrics. Partner with recruiters and engineering hiring managers, represent the company and mission authentically, improve sourcing processes, use AI and recruiting tools, and deliver a strong candidate experience. The role requires at least three days onsite weekly in El Segundo, California.

Own forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, headcount reconciliation, and reporting for assigned functional areas. Partner with leaders on spend, staffing, vendor decisions, and resource tradeoffs; translate financial and operational data into recommendations; maintain recurring analyses and dashboards; improve reporting workflows; and support annual plans, leadership communications, board materials, and investor reporting.

Designs, integrates, analyzes, prototypes, tests, and qualifies ruggedized mechanical systems for aerospace and defense applications. Responsibilities include CAD modeling, detailed drawings, structural and thermal analysis, trade studies, design reviews, system integration, environmental qualification, production transition, configuration control, and field sustainment. The engineer collaborates across mechanical, electrical, RF, manufacturing, systems engineering, suppliers, and customers while mentoring junior engineers.

Leads the architecture, design, analysis, verification, qualification, production transition, and sustainment of high-speed digital circuit cards and subsystems for aerospace and military applications. Provides technical leadership on PCBAs, signal and power integrity, FPGA and processor interfaces, EMI/EMC, hardware integration, troubleshooting, and failure analysis. Mentors engineers and coordinates cross-functional teams while interfacing with customers, suppliers, and program leadership.

Leads end-to-end mechanical design, integration, production transition, and sustainment of missile and UAV launcher systems for mobile ground and maritime platforms. Responsibilities include mechanical architecture, electro-mechanical interfaces, environmental and structural protection, deployment mechanisms, safety features, military standards compliance, platform integration, supplier coordination, testing, and resolving field issues. The role requires extensive aerospace or defense experience, launcher-system expertise, ruggedized hardware design, CAD proficiency, and the ability to obtain a U.S. security clearance.

Design and integrate ruggedized mechanical hardware, sensor systems, avionics, enclosures, structures, mechanisms, and thermal solutions for aerospace and defense applications. Responsibilities span CAD modeling, drawings, analysis, prototyping, qualification testing, production transition, configuration control, and sustainment. The engineer collaborates across mechanical, electrical, RF, manufacturing, systems, suppliers, and customers to resolve integration challenges and support mission-critical product development.

Leads the design and integration of high-reliability, high-speed digital electronics for aerospace and military systems. Responsibilities include circuit architecture, schematic and PCB design, signal and power integrity analysis, layout constraints, board bring-up, verification, production support, documentation, and field testing. Collaborates across FPGA, software, RF, power, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams, while coordinating with vendors, suppliers, and customers.

Lead mechanical design and integration of ruggedized electronics, effectors, structures, enclosures, and mechanisms into ground- and sea-mobile aerospace and defense platforms. Own the full product lifecycle from architecture and CAD through analysis, prototyping, qualification, production transition, and sustainment. Provide technical leadership, conduct structural and thermal assessments, manage interface documentation, support customer and supplier coordination, and resolve complex cross-disciplinary integration issues.

Owns unit economics, product-level P&Ls, revenue and margin forecasting, cost modeling, inventory analysis, pricing and proposal support, make-or-buy decisions, and financial performance reporting for hardware product lines. Partners across Finance, Program Management, Sales, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Mission Operations to analyze production costs, variances, sustainment economics, and operational trends.

Own financial forecasting, reporting, budgeting, cost tracking, pricing models, program margins, and estimates-at-completion for funded programs and IRAD projects. Partner with program, operations, R&D, accounting, and business development teams to manage labor, equipment, project codes, resource conflicts, revenue recognition data, and customer audits across a defense-focused project portfolio.