Sr. Staff System Engineer, Flight-by-Wire (SJ2026MC)
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Job Location:
San Jose, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 257500 - 270375
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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.
Our sights are set high and our problems are hard and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter drives better insights and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences and supports and celebrates all of our team members.
What Youll Do
- Conduct discipline and systems engineering activities for the development and certification of advanced fly-by-wire (FBW) flight control systems.
- Manage complex system requirements across multiple architectural levels (system subsystem and equipment) throughout the complete product lifecycle from concept through end-of-life.
- Provide technical leadership and oversight to international suppliers in developing lower level requirement sets.
- Lead comprehensive laboratory testing activities including hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing and integrated system testing and supporting critical flight test operations that may be witnessed by various international certification authorities.
- Conduct sophisticated system analysis using simulation laboratory and flight test data to evaluate performance against requirements.
- Lead problem investigation and root cause analysis for issues across international markets. Develop comprehensive certification documentation including test procedures compliance matrices and safety assessments for multiple regulatory frameworks.
Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering Electrical Engineering Electronic Engineering or a related field.
Minimum Experience Requirements: 10 years of experience with Fly-by-Wire system development and certification was gained. The experience must include 6 years of experience on aircraft development and certification in multiple countries with different certification authorities in 3 different jurisdictions and working with international suppliers customers and regulatory authorities.
Special Requirements: Must have knowledge of SAE ARP-4754A DO-178C DO-254 aerospace standards. Skilled with aircraft certification projects with international authorities including FAA or EASA or TCCA or ANAC or CASA or DGCA or CAAC.
Travel Requirement: 20% international travel.
Please apply online at: Must put job code SJ2026MC on
At Archer we aim to attract retain and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. For this position we are offering $257500 to $270375per year.
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Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Archer is designing and developing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for use in urban air mobility networks. Archer’s mission is to unlock the skies, freeing everyone to reimagine how they move and spend time. Archer's team is based in Santa Clara, CA.
