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Regardless of the position one holds, each team member brings their talent and desire to positively impact the environment and lives of others in a refreshing, vibrant, and inclusive culture.\nThe Lead Telemetry System Engineer owns the design, integration, release, and lifecycle of BETA’s aircraft telemetry and flight-test data-collection systems. This person leads the hardware and system architecture installed on the aircraft, connecting onboard instrumentation and data acquisition with communications links, onboard computing, ground stations, data display, and post-flight analysis tools. They will turn an existing, working set of in-house hardware, system diagrams, configurations, and test infrastructure into a scalable, documented, validated, and officially released system. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineer who can bridge aircraft hardware design, systems engineering, flight test, software, networking, and compliance. It includes both scrappy R&D work for early concept aircraft and detailed design and documentation for certification flight test.\nHow you will contribute to revolutionizing electric aviation:\nLead the architecture, design, integration, and release of aircraft telemetry and flight-test data-collection systems.\nOwn the aircraft-installed hardware, including instrumentation interfaces, power, wiring and harnessing, connectors, onboard computing, communications, and aircraft integration.\nDevelop controlled system documentation, requirements, interface definitions, installation instructions, and configuration baselines from existing designs and working systems.\nLead verification, validation, qualification, and release activities for test equipment and supporting software in accordance with BETA development and assurance processes.\nPartner with Flight Test, Certification, Software, Systems Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing, and Program Management to deliver reliable, repeatable telemetry capability.\nSupport aircraft installation, ground checkout, flight-test operations, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of the system.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent hands-on work experience.\n4+ years of experience in aircraft systems, telemetry, instrumentation, data acquisition, avionics, embedded systems, RF communications, test systems, or comparable complex hardware environments.\nExperience integrating electrical hardware, sensors, data interfaces, networking, and computing systems into a complete product or test system.\nExperience creating technical documentation such as system architectures, requirements, interface documents, design documentation, or test plans.\nFamiliarity with Linux-based systems, Ethernet/IP networking, and distributed hardware/software systems.\nAbove and Beyond Qualifications:\nExperience with aircraft flight-test telemetry, instrumentation, airborne data acquisition, ground stations, or RF communications systems.\nExperience with in-house data-acquisition hardware, Starlink, Silvus radios, IADS, Grafana, CAN, Ethernet, or high-rate data-recording systems.\nExperience with aircraft electrical installations, installation drawings, harness design, and environmental qualification.\nFamiliarity with aerospace development, verification, validation, configuration management, and certification-oriented processes.\nExperience with Polarion, 3DX/Teamcenter, GitLab, Jira, or similar engineering lifecycle tools.\nPhysical Demands and Work Environment:\nWork location is on-site in South Burlington, Vermont\nCandidate must be a US Citizen\nThis position will include occasional work around aircraft and the production line to support integration, troubleshooting, testing, and design validation.\nThe 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.\nCompensation\n$130,000—$175,000 USD\n Build electric airplanes with us!\nBETA offers a competitive Total Compensation package designed to support you now and as you grow with us. This role includes both Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units for all full-time team members, so everyone shares in our success. You’ll have access to onsite healthcare in Vermont, comprehensive medical coverage, dental and vision, short- and long-term disability, and paid parental leave. We also take care of the everyday details with daily lunch provided, and yes-flight lessons are part of the experience, along with a range of additional perks that make work here genuinely rewarding.\nWe encourage all driven candidates to apply, even if they do not meet every listed qualification.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner on race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. BETA complies with all applicable federal, state and local non-discrimination laws and does not tolerate discrimination of any kind in our workplace.\nEmployment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. 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