Jobs at Archer Aviation

Responsible for the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of core systems, implementing infrastructure, maintaining cloud-native services, and developing automation solutions.

Lead compensation cycles, including merit, promotion, and off-cycle processes. Develop global salary structures through market pricing and benchmarking, and partner with HR, Finance, Legal, and executives on compensation governance, pay equity, job architecture, and incentive design. Analyze complex compensation data, communicate rewards philosophies, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-growing environment.

Own conceptual sizing and configuration of next-generation eVTOL aircraft. Build and maintain Python-based vehicle sizing, optimization, and multidisciplinary design frameworks; integrate structures, aerodynamics, propulsion, and mass properties; lead configuration trade studies; manage sizing convergence and margins; support requirements, proposals, cost, and schedules; and present vehicle performance and trade rationale to customers and partners.

Develop conceptual airframe architecture and parametric structural models for an eVTOL aircraft. Size major components, assess aeroelastic behavior and structural modes, identify governing loads, evaluate composite and metallic configurations, manage packaging and volume allocation, generate structural weight estimates, and track weight margins. The role collaborates closely with vehicle, powertrain, and aerodynamic architects and supports manufacturability, cost, certification, and systems-integration trades.

Design and size aerodynamic surfaces for tiltrotor/eVTOL aircraft using low-fidelity tools and handbook methods. Build drag polars, trim the aircraft across hover, transition, and cruise, estimate range, endurance, speed, and climb performance, and conduct mission-level sizing trades. Provide aerodynamic feedback on configuration, control effectiveness, and stability while collaborating with vehicle and powertrain architects to meet performance requirements.

Lead airframe development from concept through flight test, including structural architecture, material and configuration trades, weight modeling, component sizing, load-path analysis, and requirements verification. Evaluate fuselage, wing, tail, and nacelle structures for performance, manufacturability, and cost. Mentor junior engineers and apply hands-on composite and metallic manufacturing expertise, including nonconformance disposition.

Lead battery management system simulation modeling, develop reduced-order battery and controls models, maintain model libraries, analyze simulation data, and create diagnostics. Validate performance through unit, SIL, and HIL testing; develop test cases and scripts; execute normal and abnormal battery simulations; support BMS software verification, automation, and mission-critical test infrastructure.

Lead product quality engineering for electric aircraft powertrain components and systems. Responsibilities include design validation, inspection planning, First Article Inspections, APQP implementation, PFMEAs, Control Plans, SPC, Material Review Board support, root-cause analysis, CAPA, quality metrics, risk mitigation, training, and FAA conformity inspection support. The role partners with design and manufacturing teams to transition products into production while ensuring aerospace quality, safety, regulatory, and industry compliance.

Owns detailed mechanical design of an electric aircraft engine, integrating the motor, gearbox, inverter, and thermo-lubrication systems. Designs components including gears, shafts, pumps, housings, fasteners, and oil-transfer devices; creates drawings; coordinates supplier manufacturing; performs finite element analysis; leads design reviews; develops validation test setups; and supports prototype builds and testing.

Leads and mentors a team developing flight-critical aerospace software for electric powertrain and motor-control systems. Oversees software development, verification, certification, architecture, testing, DO-178C compliance, SOI audits, and DO-330 tool qualification. Collaborates on certification planning, monitors process KPIs, improves safety and efficiency, and supports team development.

Leads architecture, development, verification, and certification of safety-critical embedded software for an aircraft Charge Control Unit. Serves as technical authority for high-voltage hardware interfaces, fault detection, diagnostics, hardware-software integration, and DO-178C/DO-326A compliance. Supports FAA certification audits, defines development and verification processes, analyzes schematics and power networks, conducts reviews, and mentors engineers.

The Senior Payroll Analyst manages payroll processing for over 1,000 employees, ensuring compliance with laws and generating reports. Responsibilities include overseeing payroll operations, compliance audits, and improving payroll efficiency.

Design and implement distributed data services and high-volume ETL pipelines for timeseries and telemetry data supporting flight test programs. Manage Kubernetes-native autoscaling services, build threshold-based alerting pipelines, and collaborate with avionics engineers and stakeholders to identify critical data features. Evaluate data ingestion, storage, and retrieval technologies to improve platform performance, reliability, scalability, and analytical capabilities.

Develop and verify safety-critical embedded software for an aircraft Charge Control Unit. Design charge-control systems interfacing with high-voltage hardware, decompose requirements under DO-178C, implement fault detection and diagnostics, analyze schematics and signal integrity, conduct HIL testing, and support software certification processes.

Architect, implement, integrate, and validate state estimation algorithms for eVTOL aircraft. The role develops sensor models for nominal, degraded, and failure conditions; performs simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, laboratory, and flight testing; analyzes performance data; synthesizes requirements; and collaborates with controls, hardware, software, and test engineering teams to ensure safe, robust, computationally efficient aircraft integration.

Build and architect simulation and synthetic-data platforms for physical AI systems, including aircraft dynamics, sensor models, scenario orchestration, procedural generation, rendering, evaluation metrics, and telemetry pipelines. Partner with flight-test teams to ground simulations in real-world conditions, support ML training and validation workflows, and define the platform roadmap for a growing autonomy organization.

As a Mass Properties Engineer, lead mass properties programs, validate weight assumptions, manage data for aircraft performance, conduct inspections, and support FAA compliance.

Lead design and validate mission-level behaviors, tactics, and decision logic for prototype autonomous aerospace vehicles. Support end-to-end rapid prototyping from concept and simulation through hardware-in-the-loop and flight test. Own technical approach, standards, and validation methods, perform feasibility assessments, produce technical documentation and trade studies, and represent Special Programs with internal and government stakeholders while contributing cross-functionally.

Architect and maintain CI/CD and automated testing pipelines for vehicle simulation and flight software. Support Simulink/MATLAB toolchains, manage HPC for large-scale simulations, maintain software interfaces between virtual vehicle models and embedded platforms, and act as technical liaison between flight dynamics/control and embedded platform teams.

Lead propulsion system design and analysis for prototype vehicles, including engine/motor sizing, performance modeling, BSFC and fuel-burn analysis, and propulsion-airframe integration. Support end-to-end prototyping from concept through bench/ground test and flight test. Own propulsion discipline standards, perform feasibility assessments, produce trade studies and documentation, and represent work in internal and government reviews.