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Staff Engineer, GNC

United States, San Jose 160000.00 - 200000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted December 06, 2025
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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

  • Lead teams to design and implement flight control algorithms for electric VTOL aircraft
  • Work cross functionally to connect GNC requirements with other system requirements
  • Influence leadership with decisions that are affected by GNC systems
  • Implement creative solutions to efficiently verify complex systems and software
  • Build simulations to verify and validate system requirements
  • Run trade studies to inform aircraft design and system architecture
  • Work with the Flight Test team to design tests that safely evaluate the vehicle capabilities
  • Improve the fidelity and capabilities of our vehicle and environment simulation models
  • Analyze full-scale and subscale flight data to improve our models
  • Author software requirements and test cases that drive the design of the GNC software
  • Collaborate with Systems Engineering to properly decompose higher level requirements
  • Collaborate with Systems Safety and Systems Engineering to identify and correct any deficiencies in the Flight Control System

Requirements

  • Strong knowledge of vehicle dynamics, optimization, and both classical and modern control theory
  • BS in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field with at least 10 years of relevant experience
  • MS with at least 8 years of relevant experience
  • PhD with at least 6 years of relevant experience
  • Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink

Nice to have

  • Expert with aircraft or rotorcraft performance and handling qualities requirements
  • Experience verifying GNC systems in simulation and on hardware
  • Experience with envelope protection
  • Experience with modeling physics, sensors, and actuators
  • Experience applying system identification techniques to aircraft or rotorcraft
  • Knowledge of fault detection and isolation techniques
  • Experience implementing trajectory generation and/or optimization algorithms
  • Experience flight testing piloted and/or autonomous aircraft or rotorcraft
  • Piloting experience (aircraft or rotorcraft)

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