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Salary: USD 85,000 - 120,000 / annual
BETA Technologies is revolutionizing electric aviation through sustainable aircraft development. This Stress Engineer role is based onsite at South Burlington, VT or Raleigh, NC, with hybrid arrangements possible for remote candidates requiring monthly in-person visits to Vermont.
You will own structural analysis methods, sizing substantiation, and independent challenge of design concepts supporting aircraft development. You'll build reusable capability and evidence for broader Advanced Systems teams.
Key responsibilities:
- Perform global and local structural analysis, define allowables and margins, evaluate joints and stability
- Coordinate across Structures Design, Loads, Dynamics, Materials & Processes, and Composites teams
- Produce and maintain analysis plans, finite-element models (FEMs), sizing reports, margin summaries, and risk documentation
- Provide independent evidence to Program Director and Chief Engineer that design load paths and sizing are credible
- Document assumptions, interfaces, decisions, risks, and verification needs in configuration-controlled engineering records
- Communicate status, unresolved issues, and recommended actions clearly in technical and program reviews
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, civil/structural engineering, or related engineering discipline; 0–3 years of relevant experience. Relevant internships, research, design-team work, or substantial academic projects may satisfy the experience requirement.
- Working knowledge of statics, mechanics of materials, structural load paths, stress/strain, margins of safety, and linear finite-element analysis. Ability to construct or check basic models, document loads and boundary conditions, assess results for reasonableness, and communicate assumptions and limitations. Familiarity with metallic and composite aircraft structures and at least one commercial FEA or pre/post-processing environment.
- Coursework, internship, research, or project evidence using NASTRAN/FEMAP, Patran, Abaqus, ANSYS, HyperMesh, or equivalent tool. Evidence may include technical report, analysis portfolio, design-team substantiation package, or documented correlation/checking exercise.
- Ability to communicate technical assumptions, limitations, risks, and recommendations clearly and work effectively across disciplines.
- Must be a US Person.
Desirable qualifications:
- Experience supporting new aircraft, transport-category aircraft, or other safety-critical complex products
- Experience taking work from concept through design review, build, integration, test, or certification evidence
- Experience improving engineering methods, automation, data quality, or cross-functional execution
