Electrical Engineer, Airborne Hardware

The Electrical Engineer will work as part of the team developing BETA’s electric aircraft and supporting systems. As an Electrical Engineer, you will help design and develop electronic systems used for flight controls, motor control and battery management. In this role, you will work as part of an integrated team helping to develop and certify electronic components for BETA’s electric aircraft.

How you will contribute to revolutionizing electric aviation:

Design and Develop electronics used in electric aviation

Capture schematics to support circuit functions

Design filters to meet the EMI/EMC requirements of DO-160G

Analyze electronic hardware including input power and input signal filters

Design digital circuits using ICs, ADCs, microprocessors, buffers, memory devices and serial databus  transceivers (CAN, RS422, ARINC-429)

Design and test inverter motor control circuits

Analyze analog signal input conditioning circuits using LTSpice

Compute power budgets and perform thermal analyses

Use standard lab probing and troubleshooting test equipment

Build and test prototype hardware

Develop electronic test fixtures (bed-of nails) and write hardware test procedures

Review PCB layouts and coordinate with contract manufacturers

Research electronic parts and work with sourcing

Minimum Qualifications:

B.S. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

5+ years of experience in electronics design and schematic capture using Altium or equivalent

Experience with electrical simulation tools

Above and Beyond Qualifications:

Advanced Degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience

Experience with rapid prototyping tools using KiCad, PCB123 or Altium

Experience designing power supplies topologies and analyzing performance

Experience with zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) topology

Experience with electric field simulation for analysis of electromagnetic and electromechanical devices using ANSYS Maxwell, or equivalent software

Experienced in PCB layout and knowledgeable about assembly standards

Experience working within GIT version control or other configuration management practices

Experience with microcontroller device configuration and utilization

Experience with requirements-based design

Ability to evaluate transfer functions for gain, phase margin and stability

Pilot’s license or an interest in aviation

The wage listed here reflects our best faith estimate for this role. We pay competitively and base compensation on a variety of factors including skills, experience, industry background, and the evolving needs of the role. We remain committed to fair and equitable pay and we're happy to discuss during the interview process.

Compensation

$95,000—$160,000 USD