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KLA-Adjacent Local Roles
Daily job-search notes for Ventura-area employment roles similar to Gordon’s KLA experience: senior technical, systems, engineering management, and program leadership roles at nearby employers. Distinct from Other Career and Business Opportunities.
Target Criteria
- Ventura-area roles, ideally <30 min commute.
- Best fits: senior/staff/principal software or systems roles, engineering management, program management.
- Target employers: Northrop Grumman, Amgen, Teledyne.
- Exclude: adtech, Verilog/VHDL/FPGA/firmware-heavy roles, active-clearance-required roles unless noted as a blocker.
Latest Report — Saturday, May 9, 2026
Northrop Grumman — Camarillo (~26 min)
Manager Programs 2
Supports senior program manager in pre-proposal planning, RFP responses, and program execution. Secret clearance required — likely blocker without current clearance.
Amgen — Thousand Oaks (~32 min)
Director Software Development Engineering
Strongest fit in latest report: software leadership, cloud architecture, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps.
Senior Engineer
Process development lead for drug-product manufacturing; weaker fit due to biotech/pharma experience requirement.
Senior Device Engineer
Medical device development; possible systems-adjacent fit, but less aligned than software leadership roles.
Corporate Facilities & Engineering Quality Manager
Facilities/engineering quality systems and compliance; likely weaker fit unless role has substantial systems/program leadership.
Teledyne — Thousand Oaks/Camarillo (~37 min)
Software Development Engineer
OS, board support packages, boot loaders; likely too firmware/embedded-heavy.
Last updated: 2026-05-10. Future weekday job reports should update this page directly.