Electric Aircraft Stability & Controls Engineer (Hybrid)

BETA TECHNOLOGIES; South Burlington (VT); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flight lessons

Stock-based compensation

Onsite healthcare and meals

Job summary

BETA Technologies in South Burlington, VT (with Raleigh, NC) seeks a Stability and Controls Engineer to develop models, requirements, and test methods ensuring controllability and safe handling across the flight envelope for fixed-wing and VTOL aircraft.

You will work with Flight Sciences, Flight Controls, Flight Test, Systems Engineering, and Certification, using simulation, wind-tunnel, and flight-test data to guide design decisions and support certification activities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field
• At least 3–5 years of experience in aircraft stability and control, flight dynamics, handling qualities, flight controls, or related analysis and test disciplines
• Understanding of aircraft stability and control derivatives, handling qualities, and flight-dynamics analysis
• Experience developing or using aerodynamic, flight-dynamics, and control-system simulation models
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, and data-analysis tools
• Experience planning, executing, or analyzing results from wind-tunnel, laboratory simulation, and/or flight-test activities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly document technical analyses, test results, findings, and recommendations
• Curiosity and ability to identify and rapidly implement new analysis, modeling, and test approaches for next-generation aircraft
• Must be a US Person to be considered for the role

Responsibilities

• Develop aircraft stability, controllability, maneuverability, and handling-qualities requirements for normal and failure conditions
• Perform preliminary control-surface layout and sizing to achieve aircraft controllability requirements
• Develop, document, and maintain aerodynamic and flight-dynamics simulation models of varying fidelity
• Apply handling-qualities criteria to aircraft and flight control system design, including fly-by-wire control-law development
• Conduct static, dynamic, and time-history analyses to evaluate aircraft performance against design and certification requirements
• Plan, support, and reduce data from wind-tunnel, laboratory simulation, and flight-test campaigns
• Analyze flight-test data; compare results with predictions; and use findings to update aerodynamic models, control-system requirements, and vehicle design
• Collaborate with Flight Test to define and execute test events that validate aerodynamic models, aircraft performance, and handling qualities across the flight envelope
• Support safety, system-development, and certification activities, including functional hazard assessments and compliance work aligned with applicable FAA requirements
• Work across Flight Sciences, Flight Controls, Structures, and other system teams to proactively identify opportunities to improve aircraft design, analysis methods, and test processes

Skills

Aircraft stability and control

Flight dynamics analysis

Handling qualities

Flight test analysis

Communication skills

US Person eligibility

Education

Bachelor of Science in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Python

Job description

BETA Technologies in South Burlington, VT (with Raleigh, NC) seeks a Stability and Controls Engineer to develop models, requirements, and test methods ensuring controllability and safe handling across the flight envelope for fixed-wing and VTOL aircraft.

You will work with Flight Sciences, Flight Controls, Flight Test, Systems Engineering, and Certification, using simulation, wind-tunnel, and flight-test data to guide design decisions and support certification activities.