# Electrical Engineer

**Company:** [Icarus](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/icarus)
**Location:** El Segundo, CA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $100k – $160k/yr
**Experience:** 1+ years
**Skills:** Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Avionics, High-Reliability Systems, Hardware Debugging, Pcb Design, Embedded Systems
**Posted:** 2026-06-25

> Design and own electrical subsystems and high-reliability avionics for solar-powered stratospheric aircraft from concept through flight. Requires 1+ years building real electronic hardware and strong EE fundamentals.

## Job Description

## 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
- 1+ 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

## Compensation & Benefits
- 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

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