Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
Icarus was founded on the belief that the Stratosphere is the Forgotten Frontier and that reclaiming it will define the next era of aerospace and what is possible from the sky. We build solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time, delivering persistent, affordable, and scalable presence from this layer of the atmosphere.
What they're looking for
- 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
More about this role
Icarus was founded on the belief that the Stratosphere is the Forgotten Frontier and that reclaiming it will define the next era of aerospace and what is possible from the sky. We build solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time, delivering persistent, affordable, and scalable presence from this layer of the atmosphere.
Re-establish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere.
- 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
- 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
- Meaningful equity
- Top market salary and bonuses
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Factory in El Segundo
- Real ownership, real hardware, real flight
- Small team, massive responsibility
- High signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture
- Dream desk setup
-...
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