Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer; SJP

Staff Artificial Intelligence Research Engineer (SJ2026KP)

San Jose, California, United States

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.

We value diversity and an inclusive workplace.

• Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms, with a specific focus on autonomy, trajectory prediction, and perception.
• Iterate on predictive and decision-making model development, starting from the data needed for training, architecture, input/output representations, evaluation, and deployment.
• Collaborate with other research engineers to prototype and validate complex solutions from academic literature related to agent behavior and environmental understanding.
• Conduct experiments to benchmark new techniques and evaluate model behavior in dynamic or simulated environments.
• Develop tools and frameworks to support scalable and reproducible research.
• Communicate research findings to leadership in a concise, and convincing manner.
• Stay current with the latest developments in Autonomy and Generative AI to identify relevant innovations.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

Bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computational Sciences, Machine Learning, Informatics.

5 years of experience working in developing, evaluating, training AI models for audio or visual perception, language models, reinforcement learning, or related.

Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computational Sciences, Machine Learning, Informatics.

3 years of experience working in developing, evaluating, training AI models for audio or visual perception, language models, reinforcement learning, or related.

Salary range: $237,500 to $249,375 per year.

Job code SJ2026KP must be included on resume/CV and cover letter.

Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at the present time.

Archer Aviation 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.