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Senior Manufacturing Engineer

Icarus· Engineering
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Los Angeles, CA$120k - $220kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Icarus, a YC-backed aerospace startup building solar-powered aircraft to operate in the stratosphere (60,000 ft) with a factory presence in El Segundo, CA.

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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:Manufacturing engineeringMechanical, electrical, or aerospace systems experienceTolerances and manufacturing processes

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
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Icarus

Stratospheric birds for defense

Always-on intelligence and connectivity for Defense. Icarus builds autonomous, solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 feet for weeks at a time, above the clouds harnessing the power of the Sun, but never too close. Acting as a Cell Tower in the Sky, it’s the U-2 spy plane reborn in 2025, except each costs $100K and is built by the thousands. The future of warfare is persistent swarms in the Stratosphere.

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