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.

What You’ll 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 We’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

Why Icarus

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

No tourists. No bystanders. Only builders.