Staff AI Autonomy Engineer — Edge ML for Flying Mobility

Archer; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer's AI Products team in Silicon Valley is seeking a Staff Engineer, AI Autonomy to advance end-to-end autonomous flight capabilities. You will build and deploy vision-language and VLA models that let Archer's eVTOL aircraft perceive, reason, and navigate in the real world.

You will collaborate with Safety and Simulation Engineers, validate models through simulation, hardware, and flight tests, and ensure end-to-end model serving on edge devices with strict latency and power constraints.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in AI, autonomy, or ML for aerospace or robotics.
• MS/PhD (or equivalent) in CS/Robotics or related field.
• Hands-on experience with vision-language or multimodal models.
• Strong knowledge of transformer architectures and fine-tuning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and integrate multi-model systems; VLN/VLA, perception, and language models.
• Design benchmarks, measure success and report comparisons transparently.
• Fine-tune and adapt foundation models with clear tradeoffs.
• Validate via data-driven testing in simulation, hardware, and flight tests with Safety and Simulation teams.
• Deploy models on edge hardware under latency and power constraints.

Skills

8+ yrs AI/ML

Vision-Language models

Transformer architectures

PyTorch proficiency

Education

MS/PhD in CS/Robotics

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

Archer's AI Products team in Silicon Valley is seeking a Staff Engineer, AI Autonomy to advance end-to-end autonomous flight capabilities. You will build and deploy vision-language and VLA models that let Archer's eVTOL aircraft perceive, reason, and navigate in the real world.

You will collaborate with Safety and Simulation Engineers, validate models through simulation, hardware, and flight tests, and ensure end-to-end model serving on edge devices with strict latency and power constraints.