Staff Engineer, Autonomy Simulation Platform
Archer · San Jose, California, United States
About this role
**Staff Engineer, Autonomy Simulation Platform** **About Archer** Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance sustainable air mobility. We design, manufacture, and operate all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise. **The Role** As a Staff Autonomy Engineer on our Simulation Platform, you'll play a central role in bringing learned, intelligent behavior to real aircraft. You'll build the simulation and synthetic data platform used to test, evaluate, and train Physical AI systems—including VLA, VLN, and Perception models—supporting both real-world validation and ML training workflows. **What You'll Do** • Develop simulation environments, aircraft dynamics, sensor models, and orchestration layers for scenarios and missions • Build tooling for large-scale, procedural, automated scenario generation and rendering • Generate synthetic sensor and telemetry data for physical AI training via physics-based rendering • Define evaluation metrics that turn simulation output into data-driven decisions • Partner with flight test teams to keep simulated scenarios grounded in real-world conditions • Set platform architecture and roadmap ahead of team growth **What You Need** • 5+ years in simulation, robotics, or backend infrastructure • M.S./Ph.D. in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field (exceptional B.S. candidates considered) • Experience architecting simulation or orchestration/configuration layers across large codebases • Experience building synthetic data and evaluation pipelines • Working knowledge of AI development methods (data flywheels, eval-driven iteration) • Comfort with ambiguity and evolving scopes • Interest in safety-critical, regulated engineering **Bonus Qualifications** • Neural rendering or generative AI for synthetic data (e.g., Gaussian Splatting) • Integrating heterogeneous data (satellite, GIS, camera, telemetry) • Simulation for embodied/physical AI (aerial, ground, indoor robotics) • Flight dynamics / 6-DOF simulation or aerospace M&S tools (JSBSim, X-Plane, AirSim, Gazebo) • Safety-critical or regulated engineering background (aerospace, automotive, medical devices) **Compensation** Base pay: $195,000 - $235,000 (actual compensation based on experience and qualifications) **Note:** No visa sponsorship available. Equal Opportunity Employer.
Listing freshness
CronJobs last confirmed this listing 1d ago. If its source stops confirming the opening for seven days, this page is removed from active inventory.