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Archer Aviation

Location:
United States, San Jose

Category:
Research and Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

224640.00 - 280800.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.

Job Responsibility:

Support the Developmental Test and Certification Efforts of Archer’s piloted eVTOL aircraft project
Maintain the data acquisition system, Instrumentation Configuration, and instrumentation health and readiness for flight test aircraft
Work with internal customers and vendors to solve instrumentation and measurement related challenges
Perform post-flight data processing and field data quality related questions
Key advisor to the Instrumentation Director regarding all aircraft instrumentation health and readiness status and instrumented flight activities
Develop processes and documentation to support the checkout, calibration, and maintenance of flight test instrumentation
Collaborate with the Flight Test Engineering and Certification Teams to plan and perform all required development and certification flight test activities
Collaborate with all engineering design and analysis teams to establish a comprehensive instrumentation plan including, but not limited to, monitoring of strain, temperature, vibration, pressure, airdata, ECS, etc
Assist in designing instrumentation wiring, termination details, and physical and digital integration with the aircraft and aircraft systems
Assist in designing all hardware required for flight test. For example, instrumentation racks, air data booms, aircrew interfaces, workstations, camera systems, telemetry systems, etc
Perform Instrumentation work with the support of an instrumentation technician and Aircraft Operations Team
Ensure flight test instrumentation activities are completed on time and within budget

Requirements:

B.S. in Engineering
3+ years experience as instrumentation engineer & experimental test
Experience with data acquisition hardware and telemetry operations
Experience with instrumentation systems design and implementation on experimental test articles
Experience with FTI systems and sensor maintenance
Experience creating procedures and reports for hardware checkouts and test events
Flight test configuration management process experience
Must be able to distinguish colors
Must be able to lift 30 lbs unassisted

Nice to have:

On Aircraft or Shipside Engineering or Crew Experience
Experience with programming languages and reading and editing XML Files
Experience training people on Instrumentation Basics and Advanced Topics
Python experiences
C++ Programing
VBA + Excel

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 06, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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