# Senior Test Engineer

**Company:** [Icarus](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/icarus)
**Location:** El Segundo, CA
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Salary:** $90k – $140k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** hardware testing, electronics troubleshooting, environmental testing, schematics interpretation, multimeters, oscilloscopes, power supplies, pcba testing, hardware-in-the-loop, automated test development, Data Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-07-31

> Build, run, and improve test setups and procedures for high-altitude solar aircraft hardware including avionics, power systems, and electromechanical assemblies. Requires bachelor's in engineering, 2+ years hardware testing experience, and hands-on troubleshooting skills.

## Job Description

## What you’ll do

- Build, run, and improve test setups and procedures for our aircraft hardware — avionics, power systems, sensors, and electromechanical assemblies — at the bench and at the system level.
- Perform incoming inspection and bring-up of electronics (PCBAs and COTS components) and mechanical assemblies, and troubleshoot issues down to root cause.
- Run environmental and qualification testing — thermal, vibration, and altitude/vacuum — to prove our hardware survives the stratosphere.
- Develop hardware-in-the-loop and automated test setups that make engineering iteration loops faster.
- Support calibration of test and development assets and keep test equipment maintained and reliable.
- Capture and analyze test data, document results, disposition non-conformances, and drive corrective actions and improvements back into the product.
- Review schematics, layouts, BOMs, drawings, and work instructions, and help create clear test documentation.
- Support integration, production bring-up, and flight test in the field.

## What we’re looking for

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, aerospace, mechanical, or a similar technical field.
- 2+ years of professional, internship, academic, or project-based experience testing real hardware — electronics, electromechanical systems, or similar (coursework, internships, and serious personal projects count).
- Ability to read and interpret schematics, layouts, and BOMs (mechanical drawings a plus).
- Hands-on experience with common test equipment such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, and power supplies, and basic component-level troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with PCBA/electronics testing and/or environmental, qualification, or integration testing.
- A strong willingness to learn, ask questions, and grow in a fast-paced engineering environment.
- 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

US salary range $90,000 - $140,000 USD (base salary only; highly competitive equity grants are part of total compensation).

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