AI Autonomy Engineer

As the AI Autonomy Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of bringing intelligent, learned behavior to real aircraft — building and deploying the vision-language and VLA models that let Archer's aircraft perceive, reason, and navigate in the real world. Please note that we are currently hiring for Senior and Staff level positions.

 

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and integrate multi-model systems; VLN/VLA, perception, and language models.
• Design benchmarks, measure success and failure modes against internal baselines and published results, and report comparisons transparently.
• Fine-tune and adapt foundation models, weighing tradeoffs clearly at each step.
• Validate through data-driven testing in simulation, on hardware, and in flight test, partnering closely with the Safety and Simulation Engineers who check your model's output.
• Take models from prototype to deployed, monitored components running on edge hardware under real latency and power constraints.

 

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $160,00.00 - $235,000.00 . Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.