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Salary: USD 105,000 - 135,000 / annual
BETA Technologies is building electric aviation products and the manufacturing systems required to produce them at scale. This role is for a Software Engineer with strong computational geometry expertise to develop production-quality software that transforms part and assembly geometry into validated manufacturing outputs.
You will work at the intersection of manufacturing engineering, CAD/CAM, tooling, and software. Initial focus is on composite cure and trim tool design, targeting a 50% or greater reduction in engineering cycle time. The role will expand over time to cover CTE compensation, springback modeling, automated recipe generation, and CNC programming.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop software that imports, analyzes, transforms, and generates complex 3D CAD geometry
- Generate and validate production tooling geometry, including tool surfaces, offsets, splits, boundaries, flanges, features, machining allowances, and trim definitions
- Develop automated manufacturability checks that identify geometry, tooling, and process risks early in the engineering cycle
- Create internal engineering tools that reduce manual effort, improve design consistency, and provide traceable, repeatable manufacturing outputs
- Integrate geometry-processing workflows with CAD, CAM, CNC machining, and downstream manufacturing systems
- Spend time in the factory and tooling-design environment to understand how software output is used and close the loop between digital models and physical tools
Following successful automation of the initial aluminum-tooling workflow, the role will advance additional composites manufacturing capabilities, including accurate coefficient-of-thermal-expansion (CTE) compensation, integration of third-party springback models, automated recipe generation and process-definition workflows, and CNC trim-programming automation.
The role is based in Burlington/South Burlington, Vermont. The work environment includes both office and production-floor settings. You should be comfortable spending time in the factory to observe manufacturing processes, understand tooling use, and collaborate directly with technicians and manufacturing engineers.
Note: candidates are asked to submit a portfolio as well as a resume.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, physics, or a related technical field; or 5+ years of equivalent practical experience
- Strong software-engineering background experience building reliable software used by engineers, operators, customers, or production systems
- Demonstrated ability to take an ambiguous technical problem from concept through implementation and deployment
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly when software must account for physical-system constraints
- Ability to communicate clearly and collaborate closely with subject-matter experts outside software engineering
- A practical, ownership-oriented mindset and willingness to learn manufacturing processes in detail
Above and Beyond Qualifications:
- Experience with computational geometry, geometric modeling, CAD/CAM, computer graphics, robotics, or engineering simulation
- Experience processing CAD representations such as B-reps, surfaces, curves, meshes, point clouds, or solid models
- Experience with geometry operations including offsets, intersections, projections, trimming, tessellation, topology repair, feature recognition, or path planning
- Proficiency in Python, Rust, Go, C++, or another language suitable for high-performance engineering software
- Experience integrating software with CAD, CAM, PLM, CNC, metrology, or manufacturing-execution systems
- Familiarity with composites manufacturing, cure and trim tooling, CNC machining, aerospace structures, or factory automation
- Experience with 3D printing
- Experience working in a small, high-ownership team where requirements evolve quickly and software is deployed close to operations
