Electrical Engineer – Airborne Hardware

About the role

BETA Technologies is developing electric aircraft and needs an Electrical Engineer to design and certify electronic systems for flight controls, motor control and battery management.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop electronics for electric aviation, including schematics, filters, and digital circuits.
• Analyze hardware, compute power budgets, perform thermal and EMI/EMC analyses, and prototype hardware.
• Develop test fixtures, write test procedures, review PCB layouts and coordinate with manufacturers.
• Research components, support sourcing and ensure compliance with DO-160G standards.

Required profile

• B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
• 5+ years of electronics design experience with schematic capture tools.
• Experience with electrical simulation tools.

Required skills

• Altium (or equivalent) for schematic capture.
• LTSpice for analog circuit analysis.
• KiCad, PCB123 or similar rapid‑prototyping tools.
• Power‑supply topology design and zero‑voltage‑switching (ZVS) experience.
• ANSYS Maxwell or equivalent for electromagnetic simulation.
• PCB layout knowledge and assembly standards.
• GIT or other configuration‑management practices.
• Microcontroller configuration and requirements‑based design.

What we offer

• Competitive total compensation ($95,000–$160,000 USD) with RSUs and performance stock units.
• On‑site healthcare, dental, vision, disability, paid parental leave, daily lunch and flight lessons.