Jobs at Archer Aviation

The Corporate Paralegal supports corporate governance, securities compliance, and public company operations. Responsibilities include coordinating board and committee meetings, maintaining corporate records and global entity databases, assisting with proxy statements and annual meeting materials, supporting NYSE compliance, managing transfer agent and equity plan processes, coordinating with outside counsel, and assisting with corporate transactions and legal projects.

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.

Leads Archer’s financial planning, forecasting, strategic finance, commercial finance, and business-unit finance. Owns operating plans, long-range models, reporting, Board and investor materials, M&A analysis, capital allocation support, unit economics, pricing frameworks, and P&L accountability. Partners with the CFO and executive leadership while building scalable finance infrastructure and high-performing teams in a fast-growing aerospace and mobility company.

Manage Archer’s global equity compensation programs, including grants, vesting, releases, exercises, terminations, mobility tracking, tax reporting, compliance, SOX controls, and vendor oversight. Partner with Legal, Finance, Payroll, Tax, and Accounting on ASC 718 reporting, reconciliations, audits, and filings. Educate employees on equity and model burn rate, dilution, and overhang. Support equity platforms, HRIS integrations, and program automation.

Leads financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, KPI tracking, executive reporting, and financial data analytics for an Engineering program. Partners with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to evaluate strategic initiatives, improve financial processes, refine reporting systems, and deploy BI dashboards. Requires extensive FP&A experience, strong Excel modeling skills, knowledge of Adaptive Planning and SAP, and experience supporting R&D or Engineering in a manufacturing environment.

Own and develop mission-critical C#/.NET engineering applications, including Blazor web applications, data import/export tools, and enterprise integrations. Manage the full software lifecycle, production operations, CI/CD pipelines, Git configuration control, monitoring, releases, and user support. Partner with Systems Engineering on traceable ICD updates, resolve data-integrity issues, and provide documentation, training, and operational runbooks. The role also supports aerospace systems involving SysML, avionics data, and MBSE workflows.

Performs hands-on quality engineering for flight-test operations, including aircraft and hardware inspections, FAA conformity support, first article inspections, MRB dispositions, root-cause investigations, electronic inspection planning, and dimensional verification. Collaborates with design, integration, manufacturing, and test teams to ensure airworthiness, safety, and regulatory compliance in a rapidly evolving prototype environment.

Serves as the metallic materials and processes subject matter expert for an eVTOL airframe. Leads alloy and process selection, material qualification, specifications, allowables, corrosion control, failure analysis, production and supplier support, and FAA certification substantiation. Partners with design, stress, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and certification teams while developing M&P capabilities, test methods, and junior engineer mentorship. Supports aerospace metallic structures using aluminum, titanium, steels, special processes, nondestructive testing, and fracture and damage-tolerance methodologies.

Leads strategic planning and operating rhythms for the Digital Technology Office, translating the Chief Digital Officer’s priorities into roadmaps, OKRs, budgets, governance, dashboards, and measurable results. Oversees cross-functional initiatives, AI enablement, executive and board communications, workforce planning, and leadership development while coordinating technology, finance, legal, security, engineering, manufacturing, and operations teams.

Build production data science models from high-frequency aircraft telemetry, spatial data, and noisy ATC audio. Develop signals, features, weak-supervision labeling, evaluation methods, validation, and drift detection for unlabeled streaming data. Partner with engineers to deploy and operate models in production, while collaborating with aviation experts to translate operational knowledge into measurable intelligence.

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.

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.