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Salary: USD 145,000 - 165,000 / annual
BETA Technologies is revolutionizing electric aviation through advanced aircraft design and manufacturing. This Senior Composites Design Engineer role focuses on developing composite primary and secondary structures for an advanced narrowbody aircraft, spanning conceptual through preliminary design phases.
You will own composite structural design across the full aircraft envelope—skins, spars, ribs, frames, panels, control surfaces, fairings, and integrated joints. Key responsibilities include performing laminate, sandwich, bonded-joint, and bolted-joint analyses; conducting stability and preliminary strength trades to guide structural configuration and sizing; and selecting material forms, processes, tooling approaches, and inspection strategies aligned with production rate, quality, weight, cost, and schedule constraints.
You will define composite-metallic interfaces, environmental protection, drainage, lightning-protection integration, damage-tolerance features, and repair provisions. Cross-functional collaboration is central: you'll work closely with Stress, Structures Design, Loads, Materials and Processes, Manufacturing, Quality, NDT, Test teams, suppliers, and internal counterparts. You will support coupon, element, subcomponent, and full-scale test planning, translating results into design improvements. Deliverables include configuration-controlled CAD, drawings, specifications, trade studies, and design-review materials.
The role is based onsite at South Burlington, VT or Raleigh, NC, with hybrid arrangements possible for remote candidates (requiring monthly in-person visits to South Burlington). You will work in office, laboratory, composite-manufacturing, hangar, and test environments, with occasional travel and standard PPE use.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of composite structural design or closely related aerospace product-development experience
- Proficiency with CATIA, 3DEXPERIENCE, or comparable CAD environment
- Knowledge of prepreg, infusion, sandwich construction, bonded and bolted joints, composite failure modes, and manufacturing controls
- Experience taking composite hardware through design, analysis, build, inspection, and test support
- Must be a US Person
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Transport-aircraft wing, fuselage, empennage, control-surface, pylon, or nacelle composite experience
- Experience with composite allowables, certification building-block tests, NDT, environmental durability, lightning protection, or structural repair
- Experience supporting production introduction and supplier technical management
