Senior Autonomy Systems Engineer — Real-Time UAVs

Archer; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, headquartered in Silicon Valley, is seeking a senior contributor to advance autonomous planning and multi-agent coordination for air mobility platforms. You will design real-time path and mission planning, build high-throughput data pipelines, and optimize datalinks for reliable C2 across constrained networks.

We expect a PhD or equivalent experience in engineering, CS, or robotics, strong C++ real-time embedded work, and ROS 2/DDS expertise.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Engineering, CS, or Robotics with direct autonomy experience.
• PhD + 2 yrs / MS + 6 yrs / BS + 8 yrs equivalent experience.
• Production-level C++ on embedded platforms with Python for prototyping.
• Experience with path/motion planning and multi-agent coordination on hardware or HIL.
• Hands-on data logging, serialization, and processing pipelines for embedded autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Design and mature real-time path/motion planning for single- and multi-agent systems.
• Architect end-to-end data pipelines for high-rate sensor logging and telemetry.
• Build and optimize resilient comms/datalinks for multi-agent coordination.
• Integrate planning algorithms with embedded flight software stack for real-time execution.
• Validate autonomous behaviors across SIL, HIL, and live field tests.
• Collaborate with perception, navigation, systems, and hardware teams.

Skills

C++ real-time

ROS 2

Python

Embedded systems

Datalinks

Education

Advanced degree in engineering/CS/robotics

Tools

DDS middleware

High-throughput data pipelines

Job description

Archer, headquartered in Silicon Valley, is seeking a senior contributor to advance autonomous planning and multi-agent coordination for air mobility platforms. You will design real-time path and mission planning, build high-throughput data pipelines, and optimize datalinks for reliable C2 across constrained networks.

We expect a PhD or equivalent experience in engineering, CS, or robotics, strong C++ real-time embedded work, and ROS 2/DDS expertise.