Staff Engineer, AI Autonomy
Core
Building and deploying vision-language and VLA models to enable Archer's eVTOL aircraft to perceive, reason, and navigate in the real world.
Role type
Staff Engineer, AI Autonomy (Senior IC)
Builds
Intelligent, learned behavior systems for real aircraft (eVTOL)
Domain
Aerospace + Multimodal Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Vision-language (VLN/VLA) model development, Transformer architectures, Multimodal foundation models, PyTorch, Model serving integration, 0→1 system building, Data-driven testing & validation
Preferred skills
Embodied-agent navigation (aerial/ground), Reinforcement learning, Imitation learning, Edge deployment (NVIDIA Jetson), Safety-critical engineering processes
Technologies
PyTorch, NVIDIA Jetson, VLN/VLA models, Transformer architectures
Responsibilities
Develop and integrate multi-model systems (VLN/VLA, perception, language); Design benchmarks and measure success/failure modes; Fine-tune and adapt foundation models; Validate models via simulation, hardware, and flight tests; Deploy models to edge hardware under latency/power constraints
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact
