Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Act as the CTO's strategic partner and operational lead to translate technical strategy into execution. Drive cross-functional engineering initiatives, maintain execution visibility, design operating rhythms, align product/BD/engineering priorities, synthesize risks and progress for leadership, and support roadmap and resource allocation decisions.

Develop and maintain software that ingests, processes, and routes satellite telemetry, tracking, and command data. Implement CCSDS protocols, build high-performance data pipelines connecting SDRs/modems/FPGA and customer endpoints, create tooling for parsing, buffering, recording, replay, and monitoring, and test workflows with simulated and live data. Collaborate across DSP, FPGA, infrastructure, and customer-facing teams and own components through deployment and operational support.

Lead cross-functional initiatives to evaluate, plan, negotiate, and execute Northwood's international infrastructure deployments. Manage commercial, regulatory, financial, and operational activities; coordinate stakeholders; build repeatable market-entry processes, forecasting tools, and vendor agreements to enable scalable global operations.

Lead electrical architecture for high-speed digital communication systems, defining multi-layer PCBs, power trees, and multi-gigabit networking. Drive system-level trades, review schematics/layouts, collaborate with RF/FPGA/firmware teams, guide prototype testing and field validation, and ensure designs are testable and manufacturable for production.

Design, build, commission, and improve production and field tooling from prototype to production. Collaborate across mechanical, electrical, manufacturing, test, and operations to deliver automated and manual equipment, create CAD/drawings/BOMs, troubleshoot shop and field issues, develop PLC/HMI controls, and establish tooling standards and documentation to improve safety, speed, and repeatability.

Lead electrical architecture and system-level design for high-speed digital communication systems. Define multi-gigabit networking and power architectures, review schematics and PCB layouts, collaborate with RF/FPGA/firmware teams, guide prototype bring-up and field testing, ensure manufacturability, and drive system-level tradeoffs and root-cause analysis from concept through production.

Define RF/system-level product architectures for a global phased-array ground-station network. Translate network inputs into antenna, link-performance, throughput, and availability specs; iterate designs using simulations and link budgets; partner with Business Development and Engineering to shape proposals, roadmaps, and execution-ready system definitions.

Design and validate high-speed mixed-signal digital communication systems and multilayer PCBs. Perform schematic capture, oversee PCB layout, prototype bring-up, lab and field testing, collaborate across RF/antenna/FPGA/firmware teams, and transition designs to production.

Lead SOC operations and incident response for globally distributed satellite ground stations and cloud infrastructure. Build and tune SIEM detection rules, perform digital forensics and malware analysis, hunt advanced threats across space infrastructure, create incident response playbooks, integrate threat intelligence, and develop security automation for monitoring and response.

Design, build, commission, and improve production tooling and automated equipment from concept through field deployment. Collaborate cross-functionally to prototype, mature, troubleshoot, document, validate, and maintain tooling, integrate controls and safety systems, and drive manufacturing process improvements for scalable, repeatable production.