Lead Telemetry System Engineer, Low Voltage

BETA Technologies • South Burlington, VT

6d • $130,000 - $175,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Lead Telemetry System Engineer owns the design, integration, release, and lifecycle of BETA Technologies’ aircraft telemetry and flight-test data-collection systems. The role leads the architecture of aircraft-installed hardware, connecting onboard instrumentation and data acquisition with communications links, onboard computing, ground stations, data displays, and post-flight analysis tools.

The engineer will turn existing in-house hardware, system diagrams, configurations, and test infrastructure into a scalable, documented, validated, and officially released system. This hands-on technical leadership role bridges aircraft hardware design, systems engineering, flight test, software, networking, and compliance. Work spans early-stage R&D for concept aircraft and detailed design and documentation for certification flight test.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on work experience.
• At least 4 years of experience in aircraft systems, telemetry, instrumentation, data acquisition, avionics, embedded systems, RF communications, test systems, or comparable complex hardware environments.
• Experience integrating electrical hardware, sensors, data interfaces, networking, and computing systems into a complete product or test system.
• Experience creating technical documentation such as system architectures, requirements, interface documents, design documentation, or test plans.
• Familiarity with Linux-based systems, Ethernet/IP networking, and distributed hardware/software systems.
• Must be a US Citizen.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with aircraft flight-test telemetry, instrumentation, airborne data acquisition, ground stations, or RF communications systems.
• Experience with in-house data-acquisition hardware, Starlink, Silvus radios, IADS, Grafana, CAN, Ethernet, or high-rate data-recording systems.
• Experience with aircraft electrical installations, installation drawings, harness design, and environmental qualification.
• Familiarity with aerospace development, verification, validation, configuration management, and certification-oriented processes.
• Experience with Polarion, 3DX/Teamcenter, GitLab, Jira, or similar engineering lifecycle tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, integration, and release of aircraft telemetry and flight-test data-collection systems.
• Own aircraft-installed hardware, including instrumentation interfaces, power, wiring and harnessing, connectors, onboard computing, communications, and aircraft integration.
• Develop controlled system documentation, requirements, interface definitions, installation instructions, and configuration baselines from existing designs and working systems.
• Lead verification, validation, qualification, and release activities for test equipment and supporting software in accordance with BETA development and assurance processes.
• Partner with Flight Test, Certification, Software, Systems Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Program Management to deliver reliable, repeatable telemetry capability.
• Support aircraft installation, ground checkout, flight-test operations, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of the system.

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units for all full-time team members.
• Onsite healthcare in Vermont.
• Comprehensive medical coverage.
• Dental and vision coverage.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid parental leave.
• Daily lunch provided.
• Flight lessons.
• Additional perks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior