What you'll doOwn every aspect of Icarus' physical infrastructure. Your job is simple: build and maintain an environment where engineers can focus entirely on building aircraft. You will:
- Own our facilities end to end, from daily operations to long-term expansion.
- Lead factory buildouts, renovations, and infrastructure projects.
- Design factory layouts that improve engineering and manufacturing velocity.
- Plan and execute equipment moves, machine installations, and production area expansions.
- Own utilities including electrical, HVAC, compressed air, networking, and other critical infrastructure.
- Manage contractors, vendors, construction projects, permits, and inspections.
- Develop long-term facility roadmaps as the company grows into new buildings and manufacturing capabilities.
- Own physical security, badge access, maintenance programs, and site reliability.
- Ensure our facilities are safe, organized, and always ready to support testing and production.
- Remove every physical bottleneck that slows engineers, technicians, and manufacturing.
What we're looking for- Experience leading facilities, factory infrastructure, manufacturing expansion, capital projects, or industrial construction.
- Experience building or expanding manufacturing facilities from the ground up.
- Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong understanding of construction, utilities, mechanical systems, and industrial infrastructure.
- Excellent project management and vendor management skills.
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
- Self-directed with extreme ownership. You identify problems before anyone else and solve them without waiting to be asked.
- Willing to spend time both behind a computer and walking the factory floor.
- Aerospace, automotive, robotics, or advanced manufacturing experience.
- Experience at SpaceX, Tesla, Anduril, Rivian, Amazon Robotics, or similar hardware companies.
- Experience supporting rapid company growth and facility expansion.
Why Icarus- 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 (but growing very fast)
- High signal (engineering) to noise (management) culture
- Dream desk setup
- Daily lunch
- Unlimited celsius
This is not a typical facilities job- We don't think of facilities as a support function.
- At Icarus, the factory is one of our most important products.
- Every wall, machine, utility, workbench, production line, and square foot should make our engineers and technicians faster. Your mission is to build and continuously improve that environment.
- You'll work closely with the CEO and leaders across engineering, manufacturing, flight operations, and business operations to ensure our facilities never become the bottleneck.
- We move fast. We expect extreme ownership, sound judgment, and relentless execution.
No tourists. No bystanders. Only builders.
Hiring process- Intro call
- Interview with the CEO
- Meet the team in-person
US salary range$140,000 - $200,000 USD
The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Icarus' total compensation package.
