Senior Manufacturing Engineer
About the role
Icarus is a pioneering company focused on building solar-powered aircraft that operate at 60,000 feet. The role involves owning the manufacturing and production of flight hardware from prototypes through low-rate and scaled production, designing and improving build processes, and supporting integration, environmental testing, and flight operations.
Responsibilities
- Own the manufacturing and production of flight hardware from prototype through low-rate and scaled production
- Design and improve build processes for airframes, avionics, power systems, and integration
- Develop tooling, fixtures, work instructions, and quality checks that enable speed and repeatability
- Partner with design engineers to make hardware more manufacturable, reliable, and scalable
- Drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions on build and test issues
- Support integration, environmental testing, and flight operations
- Help stand up production capabilities inside our El Segundo factory
Requirements
- 2+ years working as a manufacturing, production, or build engineer on real hardware
- Hands-on experience building mechanical, electrical, or aerospace systems
- Strong intuition for tolerances, processes, and how things actually get built
- Experience working closely with design engineering teams
- Ability to move fast, own outcomes, and solve problems on the factory floor
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Qualifications
- 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
Skills
- Meaningful equity
- Highly competitive equity grants
- No hand-holding
- No fluff
- No fake projects
- No slide decks
- No sitting in meetings all day
- Raw engineering
- Real hardware
- Real flight
- Full extreme ownership
- High-trust, no-BS team
- Core executor of flight systems
- Work across the stack: mechanical, aerodynamics, RF, GNC, electrical, avionics, power electronics, energy storage, software, and systems
Benefits
- 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
Pay
This role's US salary range is $120,000 - $220,000 USD. The salary range is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Icarus' total compensation package.
Schedule
Not specified
Benefits
- 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
Company Information
- Equal opportunity employer
- We welcome all applicants without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status
- 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
- We expect full extreme ownership. This is a high-trust, no-BS team, and everyone pulls their weight
- 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 systems, taking them from concept to reality and driving rapid iteration loops. You will work across design, integration, testing, and flight
Hiring Process
- Technical interview
- One-on-one with CEO
- Meet the team in-person
Contact
To apply for this job, please visit our website and follow the application instructions.