Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Icarus, Los Angeles, California
What you will do
- Deploy forward with aircraft, ground systems, and engineers to real-world test sites and customer environments
- Own on-site integration, troubleshooting, and rapid iteration of flight hardware and software
- Act as the connective tissue between flight operations, engineering, and customers
- Debug avionics, RF, power, software, and mechanical issues in the field under time pressure
- Execute flight tests, demos, and exercises with minimal support and high autonomy
- Collect ground truth, flight data, and operator feedback and drive it back into the product
- Support customer training, mission planning, and operational workflows
What you need
- 2+ years working on real systems in the field (aerospace, robotics, defense, autonomy, or hardware startups)
- Strong hands-on debugging skills across hardware and software