Sr. Industrial Engineer
Job Description
<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><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About The Role:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Archer is building a foundational Industrial Engineering function within our Manufacturing Technology organization to support the scaling of aircraft production. This team will operate in parallel with Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Equipment Design, focusing on how products, materials, and people flow through manufacturing systems at production scale.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">As a Senior Industrial Engineer, you will own the development of factory simulation models and production flow analyses to support factory design, throughput optimization, and capacity planning. Your work will help validate manufacturing decisions through data-driven simulation before physical implementation, enabling efficient production scaling.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Develop and maintain factory simulation models to evaluate production throughput, capacity, and scaling strategies.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Model end-to-end manufacturing flow, including:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Receiving and inventory staging</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Production lines and machine routing</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Material delivery and outbound logistics</span></li> </ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build simulation models representing equipment stations, conveyance systems, routing logic, and machine cycle times.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Analyze line balancing, equipment utilization, queue behavior, and production bottlenecks.</li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Run scenario simulations to evaluate factory layout changes, capacity improvements, and future production scaling.&l