Senior Electrical Engineer

Icarus • El Segundo, CA

13d • $120,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Icarus builds solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time. We’re re-establishing the stratosphere as a strategic domain with aircraft that are persistent, affordable, and built to scale. This is a hands-on role. You’ll work directly with the CEO and a small elite team, owning flight avionics end to end. You’ll design, build, test, and fly real hardware. No slide decks. No fake projects.

Requirements

• 2+ years building real electronic hardware
• Strong fundamentals in EE and first-principles thinking
• Experience with power electronics, avionics, or high-reliability systems
• Comfortable moving fast, owning outcomes, and debugging in the field

Responsibilities

• Design and fly high-reliability avionics for stratospheric aircraft
• Own electrical subsystems from concept to flight
• Build, bring up, debug, and iterate fast
• Support integration, production, and flight ops
• Work closely with mechanical, GNC, RF, and software teams

Benefits

• Real ownership, real hardware, real flight
• High signal to noise engineering culture
• Small team, massive responsibility
• Competitive pay and meaningful equity
• No tourists. No bystanders. Only builders.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed