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Own full-cycle technical recruiting across engineering, manufacturing, operations, and business functions. Partner with hiring managers and stakeholders to scope roles, build talent pipelines, assess candidates, manage agencies, track recruiting metrics, and deliver a strong candidate experience. The role requires recruiting expertise in complex technical positions, preferably within defense, aerospace, government, or advanced manufacturing. This is a six-month contract requiring onsite work three to four days weekly in El Segundo, California.

Develop and maintain Python-based automated test software, validation frameworks, and STE/GSE for integrated RF, communications, electro-optical, embedded, and hardware systems. Automate commercial test equipment, execute verification and acceptance testing, troubleshoot system integrations, support root-cause analysis, and improve test reliability and throughput. Collaborate across engineering and production teams while deploying and sustaining test systems in laboratory, manufacturing, and field environments.

Coordinates recruiting and employee lifecycle activities, including interview scheduling, candidate communication, travel and lodging logistics, onsite interview operations, feedback collection, onboarding, and new-hire orientations. Partners with hiring managers, interviewers, Operations, and IT to maintain candidate progress and improve recruiting processes. This is a full-time, onsite six-month contract role in Hawthorne, California, with potential extension or conversion.

Translate company goals into measurable objectives, design business metrics and reporting systems, analyze performance, improve operations, establish operating cadences, resolve cross-functional execution issues, and support executive leadership. The role requires structured quantitative thinking, strong communication, accountability without direct authority, and comfort working with ambiguity across complex business areas.

Partners with leaders and engineering teams on people strategy, talent development, performance, workforce planning, succession planning, employee relations, HR policy, and retention. Designs and improves people programs, uses workforce metrics to guide decisions, and coaches managers while supporting organizational growth and employee engagement.

Lead systems engineering for a clean-sheet airframe design, including system architecture, CONOPS, requirements, specifications, trade studies, subsystem selection, integration, testing, verification, and validation. Support software and flight hardware testing, customer demonstrations, and post-test aerospace data analysis. The role is full-time onsite in El Segundo, California, and requires U.S. Person status.

Develop advanced airborne radar signal-processing algorithms for target detection, tracking, and classification. Optimize algorithms for real-time software, FPGA, DSP, and GPU implementations; analyze radar data; build system simulations and models; define requirements; and support field testing. The role requires deep expertise in airborne radar systems, AESA principles, waveform design, Doppler processing, clutter rejection, and programming with C++, Python, or MATLAB. This is a full-time onsite position in El Segundo, California.

Designs, prototypes, tests, integrates, and supports high-reliability RF and microwave hardware for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities include RF architecture, component trade studies, circuit-board design, simulation, lab and field testing, troubleshooting, PCB layout, production support, failure analysis, and system integration. The role is hands-on, full-time, and on-site in Hawthorne, California, requiring collaboration across systems, power, digital, mechanical, and software engineering teams.

Designs, prototypes, tests, integrates, and troubleshoots RF and microwave hardware for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities span architecture, component trade studies, RF circuit-board design, simulation, PCB layout, laboratory and field testing, failure analysis, production support, and system integration. The role collaborates across electrical, systems, software, mechanical, and power engineering teams while supporting mission-critical hardware throughout its lifecycle.

Leads the end-to-end design and development of high-reliability power and analog electronics for aerospace and defense systems. Responsibilities include architecture trades, circuit schematics and simulation, PCB layout guidance, EMI/EMC mitigation, design analysis, thermal and failure assessment, board bring-up, verification, qualification, production transition, and field support. The engineer coordinates across RF, digital, software, mechanical, manufacturing, and test teams while resolving complex technical issues independently.