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Archer Aviation

Location:
United States, San Jose

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

160000.00 - 200000.00 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:

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)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 06, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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