Jobs at Archer Aviation

Researches and secures airport-adjacent host locations for receiver installations. Conducts property research, cold outreach, agreement negotiation, paperwork tracking, CRM updates, and pipeline reporting. Coordinates signed sites with deployment engineering, schedules installations, maintains site records, and serves as liaison between host businesses and field teams.

Lead the definition, implementation, and improvement of aerospace systems engineering processes supporting aircraft certification. Govern development standards, requirements, architecture, configuration, traceability, and engineering artifacts in compliance with ARP4754A, DO-178C, and DO-254. Coach multidisciplinary teams, integrate compliant workflows with lifecycle tools, provide training, support audits, and contribute to type certification and safety assessment activities.

Design and ship end-to-end consumer aviation products across iOS, Android, mobile web, and web apps. Lead product explorations, conduct user research, apply analytics and feedback to refine experiences, and maintain high design quality. The role requires designing for casual flyers, aviation enthusiasts, and pilots while collaborating with product and engineering teams in an ambiguous, fast-growing environment.

Provides first-tier HR support and manages employee lifecycle operations, including Workday data updates, HR inquiries, LMS administration, records maintenance, onboarding and offboarding, I-9 processing, and process improvement. Coordinates with Recruiting, IT, Facilities, and managers while ensuring accurate, confidential, compliant employee documentation.

Partners with employees and managers across the employee lifecycle, improving People Team processes and policies, managing offboarding, supporting employee relations, performance and compensation cycles, and ensuring employment-law compliance. Conducts exit interviews, analyzes feedback, supports audits and investigations, and advises on HR policies and workplace concerns. The role is fully onsite in San Jose five days per week.

Develops FAA-aligned flight test plans for advanced aerospace systems, defining test objectives, procedures, instrumentation, data requirements, and pass/fail criteria. Partners with engineering, safety, operations, certification teams, and FAA representatives to support test readiness reviews and certification findings. The role also contributes to safety risk management, test execution, documentation, lessons learned, and process improvements for ground and flight testing.

Develop high-reliability embedded software in modern C++ for Linux-based real-time systems. Build hardware interfaces and drivers using CAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and UART; bring up boards; debug signals and protocols with lab and network tools; and design deterministic, safety-focused software. Work within agile sprints while using Python and Bash for testing, automation, data manipulation, and prototyping.

Design, implement, and evaluate machine learning and deep learning algorithms for autonomy, trajectory prediction, and perception. Develop predictive and decision-making models, conduct experiments in simulated or dynamic environments, and build scalable research tools. Collaborate on research prototypes involving agent behavior, environmental understanding, and generative AI. Communicate findings to leadership and help transition validated research systems into production.

Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms, develop scalable research tools, benchmark emerging techniques, and transition research prototypes into production AI systems. The role requires collaboration with research engineers, experimentation across data, architectures, training, evaluation, and deployment, and communication of findings to leadership. Focus areas include transformers, multimodal foundation models, diffusion policies, fine-tuning, distillation, mixture-of-experts, and potentially reinforcement, self-supervised, imitation learning, and robotic VLA models.

Leads incident detection, response, containment, eradication, recovery, threat hunting, digital forensics, SIEM/SOAR engineering, and MSSP coordination. Develops detection rules, response playbooks, automation workflows, compliance audit processes, and incident documentation. Manages endpoint detection policies, threat intelligence, tabletop exercises, and IR program strategy while communicating risk and incident findings to technical teams, executives, legal, HR, and regulatory stakeholders.

Plans and executes ground and flight test campaigns for autonomous VTOL aircraft. Develops test plans, runs flight test cards, manages safety risk activities, establishes operating limitations, tracks aircraft configuration and maintenance, collaborates with engineering and certification teams, and supports flight test instrumentation and data acquisition. Also mentors junior engineers and leads multidisciplinary test activities.

Build and maintain software spanning embedded edge devices and scalable AWS cloud services. Develop Python backend systems, support Raspberry Pi environments, integrate hardware with cloud services, monitor performance, troubleshoot production issues, and contribute across infrastructure and hardware testing. The role values strong debugging, clean code, and adaptability across systems.

Develops and maintains flight sciences analysis, simulation, and automation tools for aerospace vehicles. Responsibilities include MATLAB/Simulink toolchains, CI/CD, automated verification, HPC-based 6DOF simulations, data interfaces, C/C++ integrations, HIL and flight-target deployment, and reusable modeling tools. The role partners with flight dynamics, controls, GNC, and embedded software teams, while supporting vehicle simulation, state-space modeling, and engineering best practices.

Develop and maintain a mature consumer iOS application across iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS. Build scalable features, collaborate with designers, refactor Swift and Objective-C code, integrate REST APIs, manage app builds and App Store submissions, participate in code reviews, and troubleshoot backend integrations.

Own and evolve a mature consumer Android application, delivering features, maintaining iOS parity while following Android conventions, managing Play Store releases, triaging crashes, and optimizing performance across Android hardware. The role also supports mobile, web, and internal-tool projects, uses AI-assisted development with Claude Code, and requires comfort with ambiguity, 0-to-1 product development, and collaboration across a growing software organization.

Supports aerospace development and FAA certification ground and flight testing by preparing test plans, test cards, reports, readiness materials, operating limitations, and safety documentation. Participates in flight test events, control-room and flight-line activities, briefings, debriefings, safety reviews, and test-risk management. Coordinates with engineering, maintenance, technicians, and program management while analyzing and communicating test results.

Leads dimensional engineering strategy for complex aerospace and eVTOL structures. Defines GD&T, datum structures, tolerance allocation, dimensional control plans, inspection strategies, and metrology requirements. Oversees dimensional validation across prototype, pre-production, and production phases, supporting certification and audits. Provides technical leadership on aerospace specifications and design definitions, interfaces with certification authorities, and manages and mentors dimensional engineering teams.

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.