Engineering Services
It is our mission to magnify your team’s innovation and accelerate your product’s development, ultimately reducing timelines and uncertainty commonly associated with novel solutions for today’s challenging problems.
Our cross-functional team has designed rocket engines, architected avionics, flown spacecraft, deployed autonomous cars, built test sites, hotfired engines, and solved some of the most challenging technical problems in both commercial and defense sectors.
Design and Analysis
Beech Systems is available to support complete design cycles, from concept to final product. We are there from system architecture, component selection, layout, analysis, manufacturability, and on through development and production with the experience and technical skill required to ensure your product is on time and on budget. Our staff can solve technical problems that meet the most challenging requirements and schedules.
Development and Test
Our staff can review or develop assumptions, identify shortfalls, and assess overall feasibility of your design from multiple product development perspectives. These include manufacturability, development/qualification/acceptance test planning, test campaign execution, and continuous design evolution. We have decades of experience crafting thorough development test plans that meet existing standards, making these tasks quick and efficient. Let us accelerate your team’s planning and execution so they can spend more time innovating.
Prototype Hardware
Beech's in-house and networked team of manufacturing and test engineers can expedite your product-to-market timeline. Whether it is precision machining of metallics, custom ceramics, bespoke electronics, robust thermal/fluid systems, or system integration, our team can turn your unique designs into actual hardware.
Capabilities
Our team can assist with projects involving the following disciplines or hardware, including in-depth technical reviews:
- Propulsion systems, components, and test stands
- Structures, mechanisms, and deployables
- Dynamics, shock, and vibration
- Avionics and vehicle controllers
- Antenna and EMI/EMC design
- Sensors, controllers, and harnessing
- Flight and ground software architecture and implementation
- Data post-processing and automation
- CONOPS development, including hazardous operations
- Systems activation planning and operations procedure authoring
- Failure analysis and data review
- Root cause investigations and corrective actions
- Technical program management
Evaluation Services
Opportunities abound, particularly in aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing. Your team understands how to help founders build teams, lead funding rounds, and manage growth.
To properly evaluate opportunity you need clearheaded review of the technical underpinnings of your potential portfolio companies.
To help them grow you need to help them identify the skills they need and bring experienced help to bear immediately.
This is where Beech comes in!
Our team has experience spanning aerospace engineering, and has participated in many of the most exciting companies and programs in the last twenty years.
We have built rocket engines, avionics suites, test sites, autonomous taxis, missile interceptors, and more.
We have taken our programs from concept definition through architecture, layout, design, development, qualification, and flight. We have lived and worked in labs, test sites, and launch pads.
We know what it takes to get it done, and can help your companies get there.
Technical Assessment
Beech provides a first-principles approach to technical evaluation. We look at the underlying science and evaluate the potential for founders to realize their claims. We help potential investors understand the risks and timelines inherent in a technical investment, whether it's a pre-seed startup with a good idea or a multibillion dollar acquisition of a complex capital asset.
Risk Evaluation
The best-laid technical development plans are always optimistic. Beech helps investors and leaders understand the risk posture of the program as it evolves with time, and provides rigorous technical support for mitigation planning, risk burndown, and risk retirement. We help founders, program managers, system engineers, chief engineers, executives and investors architect programs with the highest probability of success.
Mission Assurance
Beech leverages nearly four decades of experience with complex, flight-proven systems and deep expertise in critical mission systems to protect your personnel, facilities, and mission from oversight and preventable problems. Our experts provide a comprehensive analysis of the risks to your mission, along with recommendations for greater resiliency. We spend time with your team to understand your unique missions, purpose, and requirements to get a full picture.
Independent Review
Beech Systems is available to support in-person design reviews, offline detailed review, and in-depth analysis. Our team of seasoned aerospace and defense veterans provides a clear, well-reasoned assessment of your system and identifies areas of improvement. We work with your team to develop plans and contingencies to make your product the most resilient and robust it can possibly be.
Development and Test
Our staff can review or develop assumptions, identify shortfalls, and assess overall feasibility of your design from multiple product development perspectives. These include manufacturability, development/qualification/acceptance test planning, test campaign execution, and continuous design evolution. We have decades of experience crafting thorough development test plans that meet existing standards, making these tasks quick and efficient. Let us accelerate your team’s planning and execution so they can spend more time innovating.
Risk Assessments and Failure Mode Analyses
With decades of experience managing product design, analysis, and development testing through entire life cycles, we have accumulated intuitive and comprehensive approaches to risk level assessments and failure mode analyses. Leverage our insight for your design reviews and test plan development efforts to ensure every corner case is considered.
Root Cause and Corrective Actions
When analysis and testing can’t provide the full envelope of operating conditions, anomalies can occur. Failure investigations demand comprehensive fault tree construction, in-depth data reviews, and creative ways to disseminate important information. These tasks can oversaturate teams, cause schedule delays, and stunt forward progress where it’s needed most. Our team has the experience to develop and close failure investigations and develop mitigation efforts quickly and thoroughly. We can provide surge support and insight where you need it most, when you need it most.
Leadership
CEO / founder: Mau deRidder, PhD
Mau founded Beech Systems in 2022 to solve the hard problems and address the foundational challenges facing engineering. He has developed engines, vehicles, and defense systems used in every domain from undersea to orbit. Mau is a driven team builder and problem solver. His experience spans from system architecture to operations. He sees Beech as the future of Engineering, and is passionately interested in finding the future.
Specialties: program leadership, propulsion, spacecraft, and launch vehicle engineering.
CTO / cofounder: Brandon Pearce
Brandon is a forward-leaning technologist focused on building and leading teams that will change the way humanity builds technical projects. His career has spanned launch vehicles (Falcon 9) spacecraft (SpaceX), dropping rockets from aircraft (Virgin Orbit), to autonomous cars (Zoox), giving him a unique perspective in tackling really hard challenges.
Specialties: computer engineering, software development engineering leadership.
Director of Engineering: Jeff Kowtko
Jeff has over 17 years of experience in test operations and planning, design, and analysis. He has worked numerous projects integrating all of the above from start to finish. Additionally, he has experience leading and managing teams, mentoring, and training.
Specialties: mechanical / thermo / fluid systems, test, analysis, and design.
Advisors
Jen Leech
Jen is a driven team builder, software engineer, entrepreneur and problem solver with broad technical experience. She is the cofounder, President, and COO at Truss. She is an architect and developer of mobile apps, APIs and backend systems which serve customer needs while providing a scalable and reliable basis for continued growth. She has experience working with existing systems serving tens of millions of users as well as building new systems from the ground up. Other experience includes web development, big data pipeline development, chip design, and circuit design.
Specialties: agile development, architecture, scalability, engineering leadership
Robyn Ringuette
Robyn is a seasoned aerospace engineering leader with experience building products, systems, teams, and tools that have revolutionized the world. He is the Vice President of Engineering at GXO. Prior, he was the SVP of Flight and Launch Operations at Virgin Orbit and Director of the Innovation Lab at Singularity University. Other experience includes developing WarpDrive at SpaceX. He is passionately committed to bringing about a future in which technology empowers humanity.
Specialties: engineering leadership, team building, data management and enterprise/operations software architecture.
We're hiring!
Beech is hiring at the following positions and salary levels. All positions are full-time, remote work positions with the need for occasional travel in and around the Los Angeles metro area. We are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and make all employment related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. Due to the nature of our work, U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.
To apply, email your resume/CV, U.S. Citizenship status, and a cover letter to contact@beechsystems.com
Software Development
- Senior Software Engineer. $160k per year.
- Software Engineer. $120k per year.
- Junior Software Engineer. $80k per year
Computer Hardware Engineering
- Senior Electronics Engineer. $160k per year.
- Electronics Engineer. $120k per year.
- Junior Electronics Engineer. $80k per year
- Instrumentation and Test Engineer. $110k per year
Hardware Engineering
- Senior Development Engineer. $160k per year.
- Designer, all levels. $100k - $180k per year.
- Structural/thermal analyst, all levels. $100k - $180k per year.
- Fluids analyst, all levels. $100k - $180k per year.
Corporate and Support
- Director, Business Development. $140k per year
- Director, Government Relations. $140k per year
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