Aerospace Engineer Jobs in San Diego, CA
L3Harris Technologies
$106500 - $197500
San Diego, CA
L3Harris in San Diego, CA is seeking an experienced Power Supply Design Engineer with a strong background in analog circuit design with emphasis on DC-DC Switched Mode power supply design and development to work on Telemetry and RF products. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
Vaco LLC
$65000 - $75000
San Diego, CA
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to: the individual’s skill sets, experience and training; licensure and certification requirements; office location and other geographic considerations; other business and organizational needs. Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco/Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to the individual’s skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, office location and other geographic considerations, as well as other business and organizational needs.
L3Harris Technologies
$80500 - $149500
San Diego, CA
Candidates will work closely with Systems and Software Engineering, CAD, Components Engineering, and Manufacturing teams to ensure designs meet all requirements and are producible. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.
ESRhealthcare and EXEC STAFF RECRUITERS
San Diego, California
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience. Apply technical knowledge to the aircraft structural design and systems integration from concept through detailed design.
Natilus
San Diego, CA
Working closely with cross-functional teams, this role contributes from conceptual design through detailed design, build, and iteration to support the successful development of the aircraft. In this role, you will be responsible for the CAD-based design and development of aircraft structures and systems throughout the design lifecycle as well as leading and maintaining overall vehicle weights analysis.
TRIGO ADR Americas
Chula Vista, CA
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Interact daily with other functions such as technical support, engineering, facilities, production control, and finance to meet organizational goals Strategic Planning: Develop and implement strategic plans, including creating current and future state value stream maps. Trigo’s team of dedicated Delivery Assurance Specialists, Supplier Development Specialists, Supplier Quality Engineers and Program Managers support hundreds of Customers and are deployed to thousands of Suppliers worldwide focused on achieving On-Time and On-Quality Delivery results.
TRIGO ADR Americas
San Diego, CA
Trigo’s team of dedicated Delivery Assurance Specialists, Supplier Development Specialists, Supplier Quality Engineers and Program Managers support hundreds of Customers and are deployed to thousands of Suppliers worldwide focused on achieving On-Time and On-Quality Delivery results. Prior practical experience and implementation of Quality Engineering tools and systems such as: DOE, FMEA, SPC, RCCA, APQP, PPAP, controls plans, material control, process control, systems performance, product evaluation, MSA, metrology, automated measurement, and software is preferred.
Artech LLC
$65 - $70
San Diego, CA
You will contribute to the design and development of advanced embedded software solutions, particularly within cryptographic systems and software-defined radio (SDR) environments. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies that support national security and next-generation defense systems.
Xometry
$101000 - $150000
San Diego, CA
Xometry's digital marketplace gives manufacturers the critical resources they need to grow their business while also making it easy for buyers at Fortune 1000 companies to tap into global manufacturing capacity. Combine customer knowledge, Xometry partner knowledge, and Xometry system knowledge to rapidly address customer needs and shepherd projects to delivery.
Xometry
$101000 - $150000
San Diego, CA
Xometry's digital marketplace gives manufacturers the critical resources they need to grow their business while also making it easy for buyers at Fortune 1000 companies to tap into global manufacturing capacity. Combine customer knowledge, Xometry partner knowledge, and Xometry system knowledge to rapidly address customer needs and shepherd projects to delivery.
Fuse Integration
$150000 - $190000
San Diego, CA
This role will be a critical member of a talented team of engineers that demonstrate superb technical competency, delivering mission critical communications systems and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security. This role will support the agile development of innovative communications, networking, and computing solutions for U.S. defense agencies that improve the sharing of information among warfighters distributed throughout airborne, maritime, and ground environments.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
As a Senior Mechanical Engineer I at Innoflight, you will serve as a principal-level contributor providing technical leadership for the design, analysis, and integration of complex mechanical systems for aerospace and spaceflight applications. Define architectures and trade studies: Develop and review mechanical architectures, risk mitigation strategies, and design trade studies for high-impact programs.
General Atomics
Poway, CA
Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; six or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, four or more years of experience with a masters degree, or two or more years with a PhD. In our Propulsion Systems Mechanical Engineering Department, we have an exciting opportunity in San Diego, CA for a mechanical or aerospace engineer that wants to be part of making history by participating in the development of some of the most novel remotely piloted aircraft of our time.
GALT
$115000 - $140000
San Diego, CA
GALT Aerospace is seeking an experienced, full-time, salaried, Manufacturing Engineer to drive process excellence in the production of mission-critical aircraft pod-based communications systems. GALT Aerospace provides simple, effective information capabilities to support all levels of war and drive information to the lowest levels possible, enabling faster decision cycles and decisive results.
Natilus
San Diego, CA
By combining advanced aerodynamics with innovative design, Natilus aircraft achieve exceptional fuel efficiency, increased payload capacity, and seamless compatibility with existing airport infrastructure. With hundreds of aircraft valued in the billions of dollars already on order, we are redefining how aircraft are designed, built, and operated, representing a meaningful evolution in modern aviation.
Natilus
San Diego, CA
By combining advanced aerodynamics with innovative design, Natilus aircraft achieve exceptional fuel efficiency, increased payload capacity, and seamless compatibility with existing airport infrastructure. Assist in the completion of program deliverables such as component and assembly designs, test plans and reports, analysis documentation, and other deliverables to meet program objectives, requirements, and schedule.
Natilus
San Diego, CA
By combining advanced aerodynamics with innovative design, Natilus aircraft achieve exceptional fuel efficiency, increased payload capacity, and seamless compatibility with existing airport infrastructure. With hundreds of aircraft valued in the billions of dollars already on order, we are redefining how aircraft are designed, built, and operated, representing a meaningful evolution in modern aviation.
General Atomics
Poway, CA
This opportunity involves working within a multidisciplinary team of engineers—including electrical, control, mechanical, and other cross-functional experts—to design and develop bi-directional AC/DC converters for motor drive and power generation applications. + Create and maintain documentation to support production, including test procedures, records, bills of materials, interface control documents (ICDs), specification control documents (SCDs), engineering change orders (ECOs), and production support materials.
ESRhealthcare and EXEC STAFF RECRUITERS
San Diego, California
In this role, you will be responsible for designing and integrating aircraft avionics and electrical systems, including electrical architecture development, power distribution design, grounding network design, and system-level integration. Experience establishing requirements, developing schematic drawings, creating a bill of materials and designing electrical power systems.
GALT
$165000 - $190000
San Diego, CA
Job Overview: GALT Aerospace is looking for a full-time, salaried Senior DevSecOps Platform Engineer, who will play a key role in building, maintaining, and securing development and DevSecOps infrastructure across multiple aerospace projects. This position allows a hybrid work structure, under which an employee can work remotely for up to 2 days per week, between Tuesday and Thursday, after completing a probationary period and based on demands of specific tasks.
Shield AI
San Diego, CA
As the chief authority on system architecture, design, development, risk mitigation, and product quality the Chief Engineer ensures the successful integration of Hivemind Autonomy across a range of aircraft, from small UAS to large autonomous collaborative platforms. The ideal candidate has defense industry experience as a Chief Engineer and a proven track record of leading technical teams to develop and deploy autonomous systems.
Northwest Talent Solutions LLC
San Diego, California
EngineeringLeadership #Turbomachinery #ManufacturingEngineering #QualityEngineering #SixSigma #LeanManufacturing #AerospaceEngineering #MechanicalEngineering #SanDiegoJobs #AIinEngineering #NorthwestTalentSolutions. This is a high-impact technical leadership role at the intersection of design, manufacturing, and quality, supporting advanced gas turbine components across multiple product lines.
GALT
$109000 - $145000
San Diego, CA
GALT Aerospace provides simple, effective information capabilities to support all levels of war and drive information to the lowest levels possible, enabling faster decision cycles and decisive results. Founded in 2015, Global Air Logistics and Training, Inc. (GALT Aerospace) a rapid innovator, solving the world's critical security challenges to enable warriors to win.
Q Microwave
El Cajon, California
Demonstrate ownership of the full electrical product lifecycle—from initial design through material selection, production support, and final delivery—while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, executive leadership, and end customers to ensure technical excellence and on-time execution. Project Management skills: Proven project management experience leading cross-functional engineering teams through full product lifecycle, including planning, execution, risk management, and delivery of complex RF/microwave systems in a high-mix manufacturing environment.
Monarch Quantum
$125000 - $175000
San Diego, CA
3+ years of experience using manufacturing process equipment such as die bonders, wire bonders, vacuum reflow systems, active alignment platforms, or laser welding systems. Design for Excellence (DFX): Partner with the engineering team to influence the design of laser sub-assemblies, ensuring they are optimized for assembly, alignment, and high-yield scalability.
Natilus
San Diego, CA
By combining advanced aerodynamics with innovative design, Natilus aircraft achieve exceptional fuel efficiency, increased payload capacity, and seamless compatibility with existing airport infrastructure. With hundreds of aircraft valued in the billions of dollars already on order, we are redefining how aircraft are designed, built, and operated, representing a meaningful evolution in modern aviation.
Natilus
San Diego, CA
In this role, you will be responsible for designing and integrating aircraft avionics and electrical systems, including electrical architecture development, power distribution design, grounding network design, and system-level integration. By combining advanced aerodynamics with innovative design, Natilus aircraft achieve exceptional fuel efficiency, increased payload capacity, and seamless compatibility with existing airport infrastructure.
General Atomics
Poway, CA
The Flight Technologies department is a growing technical organization focusing on many aspects of flight sciences; the Tools & Support group supports all disciplines within Flight Technologies. We’re looking for someone who enjoys both software development and controls analysis to contribute code, processes, and tests that will facilitate simulation and analysis for a large user base.
General Atomics
Poway, CA
Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; four or more years of experience with a bachelors degree or two or more years of experience with a masters degree. + Evaluate the impact to Flight Controls from system changes, such as new external payloads and software updates, utilizing linear and non-linear analyses, piloted simulation, SIL/HIL testing, and ground/flight testing.
Macpower Digital Assets Edge LLC
$117940 - $147425
San Diego, CA
Job Summary: The Turbine Aerodynamics Group has technical responsibility for the aerodynamic design and analysis of gas turbines, including preliminary and detailed definition of flow path and airfoils, preliminary and detailed design of turbine exhaust diffusers and collectors, and qualification test planning and execution. The Turbine Aerodynamics Group supports new engine programs and core products, including uprates and upgrades, and further supports the timely resolution of product durability, manufacturing and field issues.
A2e Technologies
San Diego, CA
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General Atomics
San Diego, CA
Facilitate the development of mechanical, electrical, and logical Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for weapon system applications to include conducting working group meetings, outlining the document content, eliciting inputs from other engineering disciplines, editing the documents, and leading peer reviews as part of the release process. These include products such as the design and fabrication of linear motors, superconducting and conventional rotating motors, power inverters, high-energy capacitors, radiation monitoring systems, high-voltage direct current power distribution systems, and numerous other products.
General Atomics
Poway, CA
Assist inspectors by providing technical support through inspection plans, inspection methods and utilizing measurement equipment including CMMs/ PC-DMIS, Romer Arm, and Blue-light scanning. This position provides advanced technical leadership in GD&T interpretation, mechanical drawings review, inspection planning, welding inspection, First Article Inspection (FAI), and inspection optimization.
General Atomics
Poway, CA
Perform vehicle-control-system-related tasks for all phases of a new aircraft development program, including requirements development, clean-sheet design, software integration and validation, wind tunnel, ground test, and flight test planning, and analysis of flight data through prototype flight tests. + Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; fifteen or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, thirteen or more years of experience with a masters degree, or ten or more years with a PhD.
General Atomics
Poway, CA
Perform vehicle-control-system-related tasks for all phases of a new aircraft development program, including requirements development, clean-sheet design, software integration and validation, flight test planning, and analysis of flight data through prototype flight tests. + Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in engineering or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution and progressive engineering experience as follows; 18 or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, 16 or more years of experience with a masters degree, or 13 or more years with a PhD.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
You’ll work across multiple projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance space hardware from concept to launch—guiding PCB layouts, solving complex challenges, and ensuring signal integrity throughout the design process. Design and Develop Hardware Systems: Lead the design, testing, and debugging of analog, power, and embedded board-level electronic systems with high-speed digital interfaces such as Rocket I/O, Ethernet, PCI-e, DDR, RS-422, and LVDS.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
This role blends deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership—partnering with software, firmware (HDL), mechanical, and PCB layout teams to deliver high-reliability hardware ready for orbit. Develop High-Speed Interfaces: Design Rocket I/O, Ethernet, PCI-e, DDR, RS-422, and LVDS interfaces for FPGAs, microcontrollers, and memory devices used in spacecraft systems.
Monarch Quantum
$125000 - $175000
San Diego, CA
Floor Leadership: Act as the primary technical point of contact for the production floor, resolving "stalls," managing non-conformances (MRB), and implementing immediate corrective actions. A minimum of 5 years of experience in a high-tech, highly automated, cleanroom manufacturing environment (Aerospace, Semiconductor, or Medical Device preferred).
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
You’ll implement real-time monitoring, power management, and secure communications software for low-SWaP flight systems, interfacing with sensors, communication buses, radios, and COMSEC devices. Work on ARM and RISC-V Architectures: Develop software targeting embedded Linux and RTOS platforms, including configuration of bootloaders (GRUB, U-Boot) and Linux kernel customization.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
Investigate & Resolve Issues: Perform in-depth analysis of test anomalies and vulnerabilities, working with hardware, software, and FPGA teams to troubleshoot and resolve findings. Build Automation Capabilities: Create and enhance Python-based test automation frameworks to improve efficiency, repeatability, and reliability of security testing.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
You will collaborate closely with Systems, Hardware, and FPGA engineers to deliver highly secure, rugged, reliable, and Low-Size, Weight, and Power (Low-SWaP) aerospace products. As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer – Cyber, you will design, develop, and integrate advanced cyber secure embedded software solutions for satellite avionics and payload data processing systems.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
Integrate Hardware Interfaces & Protocols: Configure and support interconnects such as SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, PCIe, Ethernet, and SpaceWire, while implementing secure networking protocols (e.g., IPsec, TLS) and cryptographic algorithms (e.g., AES, RSA, ECDSA). Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Proven ability to mentor junior engineers, lead design/code reviews, and collaborate cross-functionally with hardware, FPGA, and systems teams to deliver high-assurance, production-ready solutions.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with Quality, Engineering, Manufacturing, Applications Engineering, and Program Management teams to align software releases, implement Corrective Action Requests (CARs), and improve processes. Execute Software Testing and Validation: Perform and witness software testing, execute structured test plans, identify defects, report issues to developers, and verify fixes across the full development lifecycle.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
Apply Cryptographic Principles: Design and implement secure software using AES, RSA, ECDSA, ECDH, Secure Boot, Root of Trust, Zero Trust, signed applications, and other secure system techniques. Design and Implement Secure Software: Develop cyber secure embedded software for multi-core processors integrated with FPGA systems (Xilinx, Microsemi, Microchip, Vorago) using C/C++ and RUST.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
Contract Manufacturing Liaison: Serve as the day-to-day technical point of contact for CM partners, resolving production issues, monitoring yields, and ensuring alignment with internal engineering requirements. Requirements Flowdown & Production Readiness: Translate design specifications, Assembly Instructions (AIs), Bills of Materials (BOMs), and critical-to-quality (CTQ) requirements into actionable CM production plans.
MacKay Sposito
San Diego, CA
With offices in Fort Collins, Colorado; Raton, New Mexico; and San Diego, California, the EA team brings deep expertise in site remediation, mining, water resources, municipal infrastructure, and energy-related projects. Full-time employees receive a well-rounded benefit package including access to our company-sponsored Medical (including an HSA High Deductible option), Dental, Vision, FSA, and Supplemental Life Insurance plans.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
Working cross-functionally with hardware, software, and manufacturing teams, you’ll ensure products meet performance, reliability, and program requirements while continuously improving test capabilities. Support Integration & System Testing: Collaborate closely with hardware and software engineering teams to support product integration, system-level testing, and complex troubleshooting efforts.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
Analyze and Improve Engineering Processes: Partner with engineering teams to understand current workflows and design scalable automation solutions that reduce manual effort. Develop Workflow Automation Solutions: Build and maintain Python-based scripts that automate engineering workflows by integrating tools through REST APIs.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
This role offers the opportunity to tackle complex engineering challenges and make key technical decisions while collaborating closely with RF engineers, embedded software developers, and system architects to advance the next generation of satellite and tactical waveform technologies. Utilize Digital Programmable Technology: Work with technologies such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), System on Chip (SoC), Analog to Digital Converters (ADC), and Digital to Analog Converters (DAC) to implement designs effectively.
Innoflight LLC
San Diego, CA
Creates Custom Testing Solutions: Designs test fixtures, cables, and works with the Hardware team to develop custom test boards and integrated testing setups for new products. Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of laboratory test equipment such as Multimeters, Oscilloscopes, and Environmental Test Chambers, with proven experience in testing complex systems.