9 months ago
El Segundo, CA, USASenior / Mid Level
Base Salary
$120k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- 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 and build reliable drivers and middleware.
- Design robust telemetry, logging, and health monitoring for autonomous operations.
- Build test harnesses, HIL hooks, and automation to speed up iteration loops.
- Support integration, production bring-up, and flight operations.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience shipping real embedded systems in 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.
- Familiarity with common embedded interfaces and protocols like SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, and Ethernet.
- Strong debugging skills using scopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and real-world fault reproduction.
- Ability to move fast, own outcomes, and troubleshoot in the field.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity.
- Top market salary and bonuses.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Real ownership of projects and hardware.
- A small team environment with significant responsibility.
- High signal to noise culture focused on engineering.
- Dream desk setup and daily lunch provided.
- Unlimited celsius.
About Icarus
Perpetual stratospheric birds for seeing and connecting the world. Born in a garage. Proven in the desert. Chasing the forgotten frontier.