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Salary: USD 105,000 - 125,000 / annual
BETA Technologies is revolutionizing electric aviation through advanced aircraft design and development. As a Structures Design Engineer on the Advanced Systems team, you will develop primary and secondary airframe components from concept through flight test, translating requirements, loads, interfaces, and manufacturing constraints into practical structural designs and controlled product definition.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop primary and secondary metallic, composite, and hybrid airframe components
- Create and maintain three-dimensional CAD models, drawings, and controlled product definition for structures, joints, interfaces, and installations
- Translate requirements, loads, geometry, systems interfaces, and manufacturing constraints into structural design requirements
- Support structural layout, configuration, and interface trades across airframe components
- Perform preliminary sizing and hand calculations; collaborate with stress analysis teams to mature and substantiate designs
- Design for manufacturing, assembly, inspection, maintainability, repair, weight, cost, and schedule
- Support design reviews, product release, manufacturing, build, and test issue resolution
- Coordinate with Stress, Loads, Aerodynamics, Dynamics, Materials and Processes, Systems, Manufacturing, and suppliers
The role is based onsite at South Burlington, VT or Raleigh, NC offices. Remote candidates may be considered for a hybrid arrangement with monthly in-person visits to South Burlington, VT. Extended computer and CAD work is required, along with regular work in office, laboratory, manufacturing, and hangar environments. Occasional travel and use of standard personal protective equipment may be required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum:
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- 2+ years of aircraft structural design or related aerospace product-development experience
- Proficiency developing aerospace hardware in CATIA, 3DEXPERIENCE, or comparable CAD environment
- Working knowledge of load paths, structural sizing, composite or metallic design, joints, fasteners, GD&T, and configuration control
- Experience producing detailed CAD, drawings, or controlled product definition and supporting hardware manufacture
- Ability to make sound design decisions, document assumptions, and communicate risks and interfaces clearly
- Must be a US Person
Desired:
- Aircraft structural design experience on wing, fuselage, empennage, control-surface, high-lift, propulsion-installation, or other airframe components
- Experience with both composite and metallic airframe structures or supplier design packages
- Experience supporting prototype build, structural test, flight test, airworthiness, certification, or manufacturing introduction
