Stealth jobs

Technician position at Icarus (aerospace/aviation company) building solar-powered aircraft. Role involves hands-on assembly, repair, modification, and testing of aircraft hardware including avionics, wiring, propulsion, and composite structures. Located in El Segundo, CA factory with on-site work required. Compensation includes meaningful equity and competitive salary. This is a hardware engineering/manufacturing technician role, not software engineering.

Engineer (Formula SAE Track) at Icarus, a stratospheric aircraft company in El Segundo, CA (on-site). Role focuses on lightweight structures, mechanical subsystems, first-principles sizing, and flight hardware design/testing. Targets recent grads or exceptional students with Formula SAE experience, grit, and hands-on building expertise. Requires CAD, manufacturing, or systems background; software is secondary. This is primarily aerospace/mechanical engineering, not software engineering.

Founding Executive and Operations Lead at Arcturus (stealth-mode materials science startup) seeks a first operations hire/executive assistant to manage CEO calendar, drafting, project coordination, hiring support, and internal operations. The role is 45% executive support, 30% operations/project management, 25% hiring and culture. Located in Los Angeles hybrid (3+ days in-office). Salary not disclosed.

Icarus, a solar-powered aircraft company, seeks a Head of Operations to build their operating system across people, facilities, manufacturing, supply chain, and finance. Requires on-site leadership in El Segundo factory; this is an executive operations role with no engineering function.

Icarus is hiring across multiple engineering disciplines (mechanical, aerodynamics, RF, GNC, electrical, avionics, power electronics, software, systems) to build solar-powered stratospheric aircraft that operate at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time. Engineers will own subsystems end-to-end—from design through field testing and flight validation—working directly with the CEO and a small team to rapidly iterate on real hardware with minimal management overhead. Required: exceptional engineering ability, ability to thrive under pressure, fast learning, hands-on troubleshooting in the field, and obsession with quality and speed; no specific years of experience listed but the tone suggests mid-to-senior level builders. The company offers meaningful equity, top-market salary ($100K–$500K range), and operates from a factory in El Segundo with a deliberate culture rejecting process overhead in favor of execution. This is explicitly "not a normal engineering job"—expect 4 am desert trips to Mojave, high pressure, and extreme ownership; the posting makes clear this is for builders only, with no tolerance for hand-holding, meetings, or slide-deck culture.

Icarus seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy aircraft and ground systems to test sites and customer environments, managing on-site integration, troubleshooting, and flight operations with minimal support. Requires 2+ years field hardware/software experience and frequent travel to remote locations.

Senior Manufacturing Engineer at a stealth aerospace startup (Icarus) focused on solar-powered high-altitude aircraft. The role involves owning manufacturing and production of flight hardware from prototype through scaled production, designing build processes, developing tooling and fixtures, and supporting integration/testing. Based on-site in El Segundo, CA; offers equity and market salary.