Senior Landing Gear & Brake Systems Engineer

Archer; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is an aerospace company in San Jose, CA, pushing the boundaries of sustainable air mobility with an all-electric four-passenger VTOL aircraft. We seek an experienced mechanical engineer to lead landing gear and brake system design, analysis, and certification efforts.

You’ll own technical direction, coordinate with suppliers, and drive test activities. The role emphasizes ownership, problem solving, and collaboration across teams to ensure robust, certificable hardware and production

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical/Aerospace engineering (or related).
• 5+ years in mechanical design, Landing Gear design, Brake system design, or related experience.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership or leadership in an engineering project.
• Demonstrated ability to seek out key information for challenging tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of the aircraft’s Landing Gear & Brake Control Systems.
• Support the design, build, and implementation of flight hardware, test stands, procedures and reports, for qualification, certification, and production applications.
• Team responsibilities include the landing gear, brake system, wheels, and tires.
• Own the technical direction of the designs, as well as the management of their delivery, conformity, test, and certification.
• Coordinate with suppliers, manage technical deliverables.
• Performance analysis, eg: braking energy, multibody dynamic landing analysis.
• Write, review and conduct tests at the equipment and system level.
• Flight test data review.

Skills

Mechanical design

CAD tools

Kinematic analysis

Finite element analysis

Education

Bachelors in Mechanical/Aerospace

Tools

Siemens NX

Simcenter

ANSYS

MSC Adams

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Archer is an aerospace company in San Jose, CA, pushing the boundaries of sustainable air mobility with an all-electric four-passenger VTOL aircraft. We seek an experienced mechanical engineer to lead landing gear and brake system design, analysis, and certification efforts.

You’ll own technical direction, coordinate with suppliers, and drive test activities. The role emphasizes ownership, problem solving, and collaboration across teams to ensure robust, certificable hardware and production