Lead AI Research Engineer, Aerospace ML Innovator

Archer; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 270,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, an aerospace company in San Jose, California, seeks a senior AI/ML researcher to design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning algorithms for scalable, production-ready systems. You will iterate from data needs to deployment, collaborating with researchers to validate approaches from academic literature.

The role requires strong PhD/MS in AI/ML, expertise in PyTorch/TensorFlow, and deep knowledge of transformers, diffusion, and multi-modal models.

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with strong emphasis on AI/ML.
• Enjoys solving less-defined and complex problems.
• Familiarity with good software practices and development, including code quality, version control, etc.
• Very strong with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
• Good understanding of Transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, multi-modal foundation models, diffusion policies, fine-tuning, model distillation, mixture of experts, and other similar topics.
• Has strong ability to debug and determine requirements for AI models in terms of data, training, and evaluation.
• Is up to date with research literature and recent ML techniques and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms.
• Iterate on AI model development; starting from data needed for training, architecture, input/output representations, evaluation, and deployment.
• Collaborate with other researcher engineers to prototype and validate complex solutions from academic literature.
• Conduct experiments to benchmark new techniques and evaluate model behavior.
• Develop tools and frameworks to support scalable and reproducible research and development.
• Communicate research findings to leadership in a concise and convincing manner.
• Stay current with the latest developments in AI/ML and identify relevant innovations.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

Skills

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Transformers

Attention mechanisms

Multi-modal models

Model fine-tuning

Model distillation

Mixture of experts

Experimentation

Debugging AI models

Education

MS or PhD in CS/CE with AI/ML emphasis

Job description

Archer, an aerospace company in San Jose, California, seeks a senior AI/ML researcher to design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning algorithms for scalable, production-ready systems. You will iterate from data needs to deployment, collaborating with researchers to validate approaches from academic literature.

The role requires strong PhD/MS in AI/ML, expertise in PyTorch/TensorFlow, and deep knowledge of transformers, diffusion, and multi-modal models.