Senior Systems Engineer, Aerospace eVTOL & Certification

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

Job summary

Archer is an aerospace company in San Jose, CA, building an all-electric eVTOL aircraft for sustainable air mobility. The Vehicle Architecture Systems Engineering role focuses on defining, validating, and verifying requirements to ensure safety and certification.

You will drive architecture and interfaces, support major milestones, test and validate integrated systems, and collaborate with suppliers and testing labs to show compliance with FAA and global standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related field.
• Experience developing or working with integrated systems (aerospace preferred).
• Experience in requirements based or model based product development including validation and verification activities (aerospace preferred).
• Experience with requirements management tools like DOORS, Polarion, Jama, etc.
• Exposure to product or system level testing including using data from digital buses (aerospace buses is a bonus).
• Familiarity with controls or software development (embedded software preferred, aerospace is a bonus).

Responsibilities

• Manage aircraft-level requirements and execute their validation and verification activities following Archer processes that are based on ARP-4754A.
• Coordinate with other Systems Engineers to ensure the fully integrated system meets its requirements and is optimized.
• Define and manage architecture and interfaces, while driving HW and SW definitions that accomplish mission objectives.
• Support systems and specialty engineering teams in the development of lower-level requirement sets with other systems engineers, technical leads, and subject matter experts.
• Participate in mutli-disciplinary integration testing, troubleshooting, and problem solving.
• Support major development milestones, including CoDR, PDR, CDR, as well as operational milestones such as FRR, TRR, etc.
• Support aircraft level and integrated behavior testing and Archer flight test.
• Support development of compliance documentation including test procedures and test reports to support validation, verification, and certification.
• Interface directly with other aircraft systems teams, with our suppliers, and with laboratories and aircraft testing teams.

Skills

Collaborative mindset

Verbal and written communication

Organizational skills

Problem solving

Leadership by influence

Aerospace experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Software Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Tools

DOORS

Polarion

Jama

Matlab/Simulink/Cameo

Job description

Archer is an aerospace company in San Jose, CA, building an all-electric eVTOL aircraft for sustainable air mobility. The Vehicle Architecture Systems Engineering role focuses on defining, validating, and verifying requirements to ensure safety and certification.

You will drive architecture and interfaces, support major milestones, test and validate integrated systems, and collaborate with suppliers and testing labs to show compliance with FAA and global standards.