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Senior Electrical Engineer

Icarus, Los Angeles, California

Posted pay

$120K–$220K

a year

Location: Los Angeles, California
Work type: Not given
Level: Senior
Experience: 2+ years
Posted: Jan 30, 2026
Last check: 5 h ago
Job type: Hardware and robotics

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What you will do

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

What you need

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

Why Icarus

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

Daily lunch

Unlimited celsius

This is not a normal engineering job

We are pioneers, not corporate managers. Icarus deliberately optimizes for a high signal (engineers) to noise (management) ratio, where engineering, flight, and execution matter more than process, politics, or management overhead
You will work side by side with the CEO and a small team of world-class builders. You will own your subsystem end to end. Design it. Build it. Break it. Fix it. Validate it in the desert. Fly it. Then do it again, faster
We expect full extreme ownership. This is a high-trust, no-BS team, and everyone pulls their weight
We are hiring across the stack: mechanical, aerodynamics, RF, GNC, electrical, avionics, power electronics, energy storage, software, and systems
We want builders. No hand-holding. No fluff. No fake projects. No slide decks. No sitting in meetings all day. Just raw engineering, real hardware, and real flight
You must thrive under pressure, learn fast, troubleshoot in the field, and push hardware to its limits. We move fast. We go to Mojave at 4 am in the morning. We expect results and an obsession with quality and speed
You will be a core executor of flight hardware, taking systems from concept to reality and driving rapid iteration loops. You will work across avionics, power electronics, energy storage, integration, and production bring-up. If you want real ownership, real hardware, and real flight milestones, this is it

No tourists. No bystanders. Only builders.

About Icarus

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.

Mission

Re-establish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere.

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This base pay is near the median for senior hardware and robotics jobs in other US places.

Median: $172K a year
Other jobs in the group: 597

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