Aerospace · Los Angeles · updated daily
Aerospace startups and companies in Los Angeles hiring now
The aerospace startups and companies with the most open roles in Los Angeles right now are Relativity Space, Blue Origin and The Aerospace Corporation. 66% of their open roles in Los Angeles are in hardware & robotics. Most roles sit in Los Angeles, Long Beach and El Segundo. Every role comes from the company’s own careers page and is re-checked daily.
1,005
open roles in Los Angeles
66%
of roles in hardware & robotics
18%
of roles in software engineering
Where the roles are:Los Angeles 38%Long Beach 25%El Segundo 24%Torrance 14%
Companies
Who is hiring in Los Angeles
Relativity Space
Long Beach, US · YC W16
Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets.
202 open roles6% remote
The Aerospace Corporation
Chantilly, US
The Aerospace Corporation provides aerospace engineering, research, and technical services to government and defense organizations.
150 open roles2% remote
Apex Technology, Inc.
Los Angeles, US · Series C
Apex manufactures commercial-off-the-shelf satellite buses at scale using software, vertical integration, and hardware designed for manufacturing. Its productized bus platforms increase reliability, reduce costs, and accelerate mission timelines.
103 open roles0% remote
Divergent Technologies
Torrance, US · Series E
Divergent has created the Divergent Adaptive Production System (DAPS), an end-to-end software-hardware production system for industrial digital manufacturing. DAPS uses in-house developed AI-driven generative design software to computationally engineer structures, additive manufacturing to materialize them, and automated fixtureless assembly to create large multi-part assemblies. The company supplies the automotive, aerospace, and defense industries as a certified Tier 1 supplier.
71 open roles1% remote
Northwood Space
Los Angeles, US · Series B
Northwood builds a global network of phased array ground stations that enable real-time, reliable communication for satellite missions. Its core product is a production-ready, fully digital phased array antenna system named Portal.
59 open roles0% remote
Hermeus
El Segundo, US · Series C
Hermeus is a defense aviation company that designs, builds, and tests high-Mach and hypersonic aircraft. Its current Quarterhorse program is actively unlocking unmanned high-speed flight.
46 open roles0% remote
CesiumAstro
Austin, US · Series C
CesiumAstro provides full-stack infrastructure for agile space communications. The company designs, manufactures, and tests communication systems and satellites in U.S. facilities. Its products enable connectivity between satellites, drones, planes, cars, and other mobile devices. CesiumAstro delivers next-generation systems that connect, detect, and defend across commercial, government, and national security missions.
33 open roles0% remote
Amca
El Segundo, US · Series B
Amca rapidly develops and manufactures critical aerospace and defense components. The company combines engineering, qualification testing, technical data development, and certified manufacturing capacity into a single integrated platform.
29 open roles0% remote
Venturi Astrolab
Hawthorne, US
Venturi Astrolab (Astrolab) designs, builds, and operates a fleet of multi-purpose commercial planetary rovers.
28 open roles18% remote
Nominal
Los Angeles, US · Series B
Nominal provides a connected test and operations platform for hardware engineering teams. Its products, Nominal Core and Nominal Connect, help teams manage, monitor, analyze, and automate test data and operations.
25 open roles0% remote
Sift
El Segundo, US · Series B
Sift is a unified observability platform for mission-critical hardware that ingests, stores, and analyzes telemetry at scale. Sift automatically transforms raw sensor data into structured, queryable data that both engineers and AI systems can work with.
20 open roles0% remote
Furientis
El Segundo, US · Pre Seed
Furientis builds missile-interception systems for defense and government customers.
14 open roles0% remote
Odys Aviation
Long Beach, US · Series A
Odys Aviation builds hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft for regional mobility. Its flagship aircraft Alta is designed to connect cities less than 1,000 miles apart using city helipads and local airports. The company also develops a UAV called Laila for commercial logistics, medical transport, humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and defense missions.
12 open roles0% remote
Salient Motion
Torrance, US · Seed
Salient Motion designs and manufactures critical actuation systems for commercial aviation and defense. The company's modular, software-driven platform is designed to extend beyond actuation into a wide range of aircraft systems.
12 open roles
Senra Systems
Redondo Beach, US · Series A
Senra Systems manufactures complex wire harness systems used in aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, satellites, defense systems and other advanced platforms. The company's manufacturing model is powered by Amp, its proprietary software platform that integrates quoting, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management and production workflows into a unified system.
7 open roles0% remote
Cambium Biomaterials
El Segundo, US · Series B
Cambium develops and manufactures advanced materials, including composites, thermal-protection materials and directed-energy protection, for defense, aerospace, space, automotive and other high-performance industries.
7 open roles25% remote
JetZero
JetZero develops commercial and defense aircraft. It is an American aerospace company.
6 open roles
Skyryse
El Segundo, US · Series C
Skyryse is the developer of a flight automation technology stack. The product can be retrofitted onto any aircraft, allowing experienced pilots to operate new aircraft and helping novice flyers learn more quickly.
6 open roles0% remote
Heart Aerospace
Torrance, US · Series B
Heart Aerospace is developing hybrid-electric regional commercial aircraft designed to make short-haul air travel lower cost and cleaner. The company is building toward commercial service with the ES-30 hybrid-electric airliner.
4 open roles0% remote
EnduroSat
Sofia, BG · Series B
EnduroSat designs, builds, and operates CubeSats and nanosatellites for commercial, governmental, and scientific missions. The company streamlines space missions in LEO and beyond, handling every step from mission design to launch and operations.
4 open roles56% remote
Epsilon3
Los Angeles, US · Series A · YC S21
Epsilon3 is a lifecycle execution platform for complex hardware that connects and executes work across design, engineering, manufacturing, test, training, operations, and sustainment. It is an AI-powered procedure and resource management software for complex operations.
3 open roles0% remote
Re:Build Manufacturing
framingham, US
Re:Build Manufacturing integrates design, engineering, and manufacturing to deliver complex, multi-technology products from concept through full-rate production. Its primary markets are aerospace and defense, energy and electrification, medical, and robotics and automation.
3 open roles10% remote
Shield AI
San Diego, US · Series G
Shield AI is a defense technology company that develops AI pilots for aircraft, drones, ships, and satellites. Its products include Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and Aechelon simulation technologies.
3 open roles5% remote
Maxar
westminster, US · Private Equity
Maxar provides advanced space technology solutions, including geospatial intelligence and manufacturing space systems. The company delivers high-resolution satellite imagery, digital basemaps, and 3D datasets through its Vivid and Precision3D platforms.
2 open roles34% remote
Swarm Aero
Oxnard, US · Series A
Swarm Aero builds large-scale unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms for defense and missions. The company develops the first UAV designed from the ground up for swarming and the Command & Control software to mobilize swarms of thousands of heterogeneous autonomous assets.
1 open roles36% remote
Blue Origin
kent, US
Blue Origin builds reusable rockets and rocket engines for spaceflight. Its products also include lunar landers and in-space mobility systems.
155 open roles2% remote
Open roles
Newest roles in Los Angeles
Apex Technology, Inc.
Los Angeles
Director of Cybersecurity
Los Angeles
$195k–$270k
1d ago
Salient Motion
Hawthorne, CA
Software Engineer
Hawthorne, CA
$130k–$160k
1d ago
Northwood Space
Torrance, CA
Principal Electrical Engineer
Torrance, CA
$204k–$255k
1d ago
Northwood Space
Torrance, CA
Build and Release Engineer (DevOps)
Torrance, CA
$130k–$197k
1d ago
Relativity Space
Long Beach, California, United States
Manufacturing Test Engineer II, Fluid Systems
Long Beach, California, United States
$109k–$163k
1d ago
Northwood Space
Torrance, CA
Full Stack Developer - Internal Tooling
Torrance, CA
$140k–$178k
1d ago
Apex Technology, Inc.
Los Angeles
Cybersecurity Lead Engineer (TS)
Los Angeles
$160k–$200k
1d ago
Apex Technology, Inc.
Los Angeles
IT Engineer
Los Angeles
$104k–$130k
1d ago
Aerospace hiring in Los Angeles
This page covers Los Angeles, Hawthorne, El Segundo and Long Beach. Relativity Space: Relativity Space is an aerospace company that designs, develops, and builds 3D-printed rockets. The Aerospace Corporation: The Aerospace Corporation provides aerospace engineering, research, and technical services to government and defense organizations. Apex Technology, Inc.: Apex manufactures commercial-off-the-shelf satellite buses at scale using software, vertical integration, and hardware designed for manufacturing. Its productized bus platforms increase reliability, reduce costs, and accelerate mission timelines.
The roles they hire for
Across the open roles in Los Angeles today, the mix is hardware & robotics (66%), software engineering (18%), security (4%), research & science (2%) and program & project management (2%).
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Frequently asked
Which aerospace startups and companies in Los Angeles are hiring the most?
Right now: Relativity Space, Blue Origin, The Aerospace Corporation, Apex Technology, Inc. and Divergent Technologies. The list above shows startups first, then larger companies, each ranked by its open roles in Los Angeles today.
Where in Los Angeles are they hiring?
Most roles are in Los Angeles, Long Beach, El Segundo and Torrance. The page covers Los Angeles, Hawthorne, El Segundo and Long Beach.
Do aerospace startups and companies in Los Angeles hire remotely?
1% of the roles here are listed as remote. Each company page shows its own remote share.
What roles do aerospace startups and companies in Los Angeles hire for?
The most common are hardware & robotics, software engineering and security.
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