Senior AI Research Engineer - (SJ2026NZ)
Archer · San Jose, California, United States
About this role
**Archer — Senior AI Research Engineer (SJ2026NZ)** **About Archer** Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform. The company delivers air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), aviation-related physical AI solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide across commercial aerospace and defense. Archer is committed to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces differences and supports and celebrates all team members. --- **What You’ll Do** - Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms, with a focus on autonomy, trajectory prediction, and perception. - Iterate on predictive and decision-making model development, including data needs 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. --- **Minimum Education Requirement** - Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computational Sciences, Machine Learning, Robotics, or Informatics. --- **Special Requirements** - Highly skilled with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow. - Strong debugging skills and ability to determine AI model requirements across data, training, and evaluation. - Understanding of Transformer architectures and attention mechanisms. - Experience/knowledge with multi-modal foundation models, diffusion policies, fine-tuning, model distillation, and mixture of experts. --- **Compensation** - $195,000 to $204,750 per year. --- **How to Apply** - Apply online: https://www.archer.com/careers - Include **Job Code: SJ2026NZ** on your resume/CV and cover letter. --- **Additional Notes** - Archer provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with physical or mental disabilities and those with sincerely held religious beliefs (case-by-case). - Certain positions may be eligible for visa sponsorship. - Archer is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity. - #LI-DNI
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