Jobs at Icarus

Senior Electrical Engineer at Icarus responsible for designing and flying high-reliability avionics for stratospheric aircraft. The role involves owning electrical subsystems from concept to flight, supporting integration and production, and collaborating with other engineering teams.

Senior RF Engineer at Icarus responsible for designing, building, and flying RF and communications systems for long-endurance stratospheric aircraft. This role involves owning RF subsystems end-to-end, including architecture, link budgets, integration, testing, and flight validation, as well as leading EMI/EMC mitigation.

Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Icarus, focusing on flight-critical software for stratospheric aircraft. Responsibilities include end-to-end ownership of embedded subsystems, firmware development for avionics and sensors, and building robust telemetry and logging systems.

Forward Deployed Engineer at Icarus, based in El Segundo. This role involves deploying and supporting solar-powered aircraft and ground systems in various environments, troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking issues, executing flight tests, and acting as a liaison between field operations and engineering teams.

Manufacturing Engineer at Icarus in El Segundo. This role involves owning the manufacturing and production of flight hardware from prototype to scaled production, designing and improving build processes, and developing tooling and work instructions. The engineer will also partner with design teams, conduct root-cause analysis, and support integration and testing.

Mechanical Engineer at Icarus in El Segundo. This role involves designing and flying lightweight, high-reliability structures for stratospheric aircraft, owning mechanical subsystems from concept to flight, and performing first-principles sizing and rapid iteration. The candidate will build, test, and refine flight hardware, and support integration and flight operations.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at Icarus responsible for deploying and operating solar-powered aircraft and ground systems in various environments. This role involves end-to-end field support, troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking issues, leading flight test campaigns, and acting as a liaison between field operations and engineering teams.

Network Engineer at Icarus in El Segundo. This role involves designing, deploying, and maintaining networking infrastructure, including configuring routers, switches, VPNs, and firewalls. The engineer will also manage security and compliance processes like STIG reviews and vulnerability scans, and coordinate with government cybersecurity leads.

The Flight Operations Crew Chief at Icarus is responsible for ensuring aircraft readiness. This role involves assembling, preparing, inspecting, and maintaining solar-powered aircraft for flight operations. The Crew Chief must diagnose and fix mechanical, electrical, and software issues, perform maintenance, and document all activities.

Icarus is seeking an Airspace & Range Lead in El Segundo. This role is responsible for finding and evaluating test ranges, building relationships with regulatory bodies, and managing flight authorizations from end to end. The lead will translate engineering data into application packages and act as a liaison between engineering, flight operations, and regulators.

This is a Software Engineer (generalist) role at Icarus, a company building solar-powered aircraft for stratospheric flight. The engineer will build and own end-to-end software systems for flight operations, autonomy, and user interaction, including backend services and frontends for ground control. The role requires 2+ years of full-stack experience with backend and frontend technologies, and experience with APIs, databases, and distributed systems.

Senior Test Engineer at Icarus in El Segundo. This role involves building, running, and improving test setups for aircraft hardware, including avionics, power systems, and sensors. Responsibilities include performing incoming inspections, environmental testing, developing automated test setups, and analyzing test data to drive product improvements.

The Flight Operations Engineer at Icarus is responsible for the end-to-end technical execution of aircraft flights. This includes site setup, aircraft preparation, preflight operations, in-flight control, anomaly troubleshooting, procedure writing, system configuration, and data analysis.

This is an engineering role at Icarus, a company building solar-powered aircraft for stratospheric flight. The role emphasizes extreme ownership, working directly with the CEO, and end-to-end subsystem responsibility from design to flight validation.

Flight Test Engineer at Icarus responsible for ensuring flight test data is clean and trustworthy. This role involves designing flight test campaigns, defining measurement requirements, overseeing test execution, and analyzing data to drive design decisions.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Icarus in El Segundo. This role involves owning the manufacturing and production of flight hardware from prototype to scaled production, designing and improving build processes for various aircraft systems, and developing tooling and work instructions. The engineer will also partner with design teams, conduct root-cause analysis, and support integration and testing.

Senior Mechanical Engineer at Icarus in El Segundo. This role involves designing and flying lightweight, high-reliability structures for stratospheric aircraft, owning mechanical subsystems from concept to flight, and performing first-principles sizing and trade studies. The engineer will also build, test, and refine flight hardware, and support integration, production, and flight operations.

Technician at Icarus in El Segundo. This hands-on role involves building, assembling, modifying, repairing, and testing aircraft hardware. Responsibilities include supporting mechanical assembly, wiring, avionics installation, and working from engineering drawings and instructions.

This is a junior engineering role at Icarus, focused on Formula SAE experience. The engineer will design, build, test, and fly lightweight, high-reliability structures for stratospheric aircraft, owning mechanical subsystems from concept to flight.

The Flight Operations Generalist at Icarus is responsible for taking aircraft from the hangar to the sky and back. This role involves setting up test sites, preparing aircraft for flight, conducting preflight checks, operating aircraft during flight, and troubleshooting issues under engineer direction.