Flight Test Engineer at icarusicarus · El Segundo

Workplace: Remote

Posted: 2026-10-16

Skills: PythonIcarus was founded on the belief that the Stratosphere is the Forgotten Frontier and that reclaiming it will define the next era of aerospace and what is possible from the sky. We build solar-powered aircraft that fly at 60,000 ft for weeks at a time, delivering persistent, affordable, and scalable presence from this layer of the atmosphere. The Flight Test Engineer makes sure every Icarus flight produces clean, trustworthy engineering data. You build the test cards and criteria, oversee their execution in the field, jump in on parameter changes when the test calls for it, and turn the data into the conclusions that drive the next design. Operations runs the test event. You make sure it tests the right things and that we learn everything we can from it. Mission Re-establish and maintain dominance in the Stratosphere. What you’ll do Plan the test Design flight test campaigns, test cards, and pass/fail criteria from first flight through envelope expansion. Define what we measure: instrumentation, sensors, data acquisition, and telemetry requirements. Write test plans and hazard analyses, and contribute to flight safety documentation. Translate engineering questions into test points that can effectively find an answer. Oversee the test Oversee execution of test cards and test criteria during test events, making sure each point is flown …truncated… e operators who fly it. You will own the test cards and the data end to end. Plan it. Watch it fly. Analyze it. Tell us what to change. Then prove it on the next flight. We expect full extreme ownership. This is a high-trust, no-BS team, and everyone pulls their weight, especially in the field. We want engineers in the field, not behind a desk waiting for someone else's data. No theoretical test programs. No flights that do not teach us something. Just real aircraft, real envelopes, and real data. You must thrive under pressure, learn fast, and produce in the field. We move fast. We go to Mojave at 4 am in the morning . We ex…Sign in to see the original postingBrowse more developer jobs on RoleBurst