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# Embedded Software Engineer

- **Company:** ICARUS LLC
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $220,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C++ (Programming Language), Embedded Software, Ethernet, Firmware, Joint Test Action (IEEE Standards), Real-Time Operating Systems, Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter, Serial Peripheral Interface, Bare Metal
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_bfbaaab15

## About the Role

* 2+ years shipping real embedded systems (aerospace, robotics, automotive, defense, or similarly 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
 * Experience with common embedded interfaces and protocols (SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, Ethernet)
 * Strong debugging skills using scopes, logic analyzers, JTAG, and real-world fault reproduction
 * Comfort moving fast, owning outcomes, and troubleshooting in the field

## Description

1. We are pioneers, not corporate managers. Icarus deliberately optimizes for a high signal (engineers) to noise (management) ratio, where engineering, flight, and execution matter more than process, politics, or management overhead
 2. You will work side by side with the CEO and a small team of world-class builders. You will own your subsystem end to end. Design it. Build it. Break it. Fix it. Validate it in the desert. Fly it. Then do it again, faster
 3. We expect full extreme ownership. This is a high-trust, no-BS team, and everyone pulls their weight
 4. We are hiring across the stack: mechanical, aerodynamics, RF, GNC, electrical, avionics, power electronics, energy storage, software, and systems
 5. We want builders. No hand-holding. No fluff. No fake projects. No slide decks. No sitting in meetings all day. Just raw engineering, real hardware, and real flight
 6. You must thrive under pressure, learn fast, troubleshoot in the field, and push hardware to its limits. We move fast. We go to Mojave at 4 am in the morning. We expect results and an obsession with quality and speed
 7. You will be a core executor of flight systems, taking them from concept to reality and driving rapid iteration loops. You will work across design, integration, testing, and flight. If you want real ownership, real hardware, and real flight milestones, this is it.