AI Autonomy Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p>Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform that delivers air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”), aviation-related physical artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide across the commercial aerospace and defense sectors.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.</span></p></div><p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As the AI Autonomy Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of bringing intelligent, learned behavior to real aircraft — building and deploying the vision-language and VLA models that let Archer's aircraft perceive, reason, and navigate in the real world. <strong><em>Please note that we are currently hiring for Senior and Staff level positions.</em></strong></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"> </p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></span></p> <ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet p-rich_text_list--nested" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-list-tree="true" data-indent="0" data-border="0"> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop and integrate multi-model systems; VLN/VLA, perception, and language models.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Design benchmarks, measure success and failure modes against internal baselines and published results, and report comparisons transparently.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Fine-tune and adapt foundation models, weighing tradeoffs clearly at each step.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Validate through data-driven testing in simulation, on hardware, and in flight test, partnering closely with the Safety and Simulation Engineers who check your model's output.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 2;" data-stringify-indent="0" data-stringify-border="0"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Take models from prototype to deployed, monitored components running on edge hardware under real latency and power constraints.</span></li> </ul> <div class="p-rich_text_section" style="line-height: 1.5;"> </div> <div class="p-rich_text_section" style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What You Need:</strong></span></div> <div class="p-rich_text_section" style