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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Legal Counsel - US Government Contracts (Advanced Effects)
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Senior Quality System Engineer
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Staff Avionics Maintenance Engineer - Advanced Effects
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Senior Offensive Security Engineer
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Director, Warehouse Operations & Production Supply
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Director, Material Movement & Production Supply
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Senior Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Core Tech Casting
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Senior Supplier Manufacturing Engineer, Core Tech Mechanical
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Senior Supplier Industrialization Engineer, Core Tech Mechanical
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Manager, Hardware Test Engineering
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Chief Engineer
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Director, CEO Office
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Staff AI & Agentic Platform Engineer
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Senior Project Engineer, AD&S
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Project Engineer, AD&S
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Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
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Flight Test Engineer
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Transportation Manager
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EMC Design Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike
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Demand & Supply Planning, Sentry
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Mission Software Engineer, Mission Systems, Networking
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Mission Software Engineer, Mission Systems, Deployment and Infrastructure
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Mission Software Engineer, Mission Systems, Cyber Security
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Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Electronic Assemblies, Active Clearance
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Systems Engineering Manager, Mission Autonomy
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Senior Electrical Harness Design Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike
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Electrical Harness Design Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike
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Deputy Technical Program Manager
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Production Scheduler, Maritime Manufacturing
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Industrial Engineer, Maritime Manufacturing
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Senior Strategic Product Sourcing Engineer, Electromagnetic Warfare
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Senior Supplier Quality Engineer
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Senior Recruiter, R4R
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Metrology Lab Specialist
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Tactical Networking Engineer
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Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed
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Supplier Quality Data Analytics Engineer
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Operations Engineer, Warehousing & Capacity
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Material Planner III, Sentry
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Manager, Demand & Supply Planning, Sentry
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Electrical System Test Engineer EMC, Air Dominance and Strike
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Staff Mission Systems Engineer, Electronic Warfare, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance
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Senior Mission Systems Engineer, Electronic Warfare, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance
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Electrical Design Engineer, Hypersonic, Air Dominance and Strike
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Winter 2027 Reliability Engineer Co-op
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2027 Reliability Engineer Intern
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Senior Electrical Engineer, Hardware Platform, 8+ years of experience
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Electrical Engineer, Hardware Platform, 5+ years of experience
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Electrical Engineer, Hardware Platform, 2+ years of experience
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FPGA Engineer, EW
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