Senior Embedded Software Engineer

Mission

Reestablish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere.

What You’ll Do

• Build and ship flight-critical embedded software for long-endurance stratospheric aircraft
• Own embedded subsystems end to end: architecture, implementation, bring-up, debugging, test, and flight validation
• Write firmware for MCU-based avionics, sensors, actuators, power systems, and comms interfaces
• Integrate sensors and peripherals (IMU, GNSS, air data, magnetometer, servos, radios) and build reliable drivers and middleware
• Design robust telemetry, logging, and health monitoring to support long-duration autonomous operations
• Build test harnesses, HIL hooks, and automation that makes iteration loops faster
• Support integration, production bring-up, and flight ops in the desert

We’re Looking For

• 2+ years shipping real embedded systems (aerospace, robotics, automotive, defense, or similarly high-reliability domains)
• Strong C/C++ fundamentals and comfort working close to hardware
• Experience with RTOS or bare-metal firmware, interrupts, timing, and deterministic systems
• Experience with common embedded interfaces and protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet)
• Strong debugging skills using scopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and real-world fault reproduction
• Comfort moving fast, owning outcomes, and troubleshooting 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

Hiring Process

• Technical interview
• One-on-one with CEO
• Meet the team in-person
• US salary range: $120,000 - $220,000 USD