Startup jobs in Orange County
Orange County has quietly become a defense and hardware hiring engine, anchored by the Costa Mesa campus and the companies growing around it. Every open role in the county lands on this page.
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Head of Raw Materials & Energetics Strategic Supply Chain
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Senior Mission Engineer, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance
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Mission Operations Manager, C2
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Actuation Engineer, Air Maneuver Dominance
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Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, Hardware Platform, 7+ years of experience
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Mechanical Design Engineer, Hardware Platform, 2+ years of experience
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Lead Analyst, Pricing Operations
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Mission Systems Lead - Thunder
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Senior Program Finance Manager, AD&S
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Reliability Engineering Manager
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Corporate Facility Security Officer
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Senior Product Designer, Space
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Head of Mechanical Strategic Supply Chain
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Head of Strategic Supply Chain
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Head of Electrical Strategic Supply Chain
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Senior Director, Controller
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Staff Test & Evaluation Engineer - Networked Battlefield Systems
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Principal Test & Evaluation Engineer - Networked Battlefield Systems
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Logistics Analyst
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Manager, Industrial Engineer
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Senior Industrial Engineer
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Senior Industrial Engineer, Labor Standards
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Senior Industrial Engineer, Layouts
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Senior Industrial Engineer, Simulation
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Manufacturing Specialist, Space
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Enablement Manager
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Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer
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Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer, Physical Infrastructure
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Lead Manufacturing Engineer, Space Vehicle Integration
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Senior Technical Program Manager, ArsenalOS
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Deployment Lead, Counter Intrusion
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Senior Technical Recruiter, Manufacturing Operations (Contract)
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Senior Technical Recruiter, Manufacturing Engineering (Contract)
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Senior Aviation Maintenance Engineer - Advanced Effects
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Product Designer
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2027 Early Career Flight Software Engineer
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VP Production, Frontier Systems
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VP Production, Mission Systems
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VP Production, Connected Warfare
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Senior Digital Design Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike
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Senior FPGA Verification Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike
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Manufacturing Engineer, Process and Planning
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Supplier Quality Control Inspector
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Senior Embedded Software Engineer
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Stress Analysis Engineer, Maritime Structures
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Chief Engineer, Advanced Effects (Missiles)
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Senior Maintenance Technician, 2nd Shift
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Automation & Torque Tooling Technician
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Senior Finance Associate, Engineering
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Digital Tools Engineer, Manufacturing
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