Staff AI Research Engineer

Archer
San Jose
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 190,000 - 240,000 annuallyFunction: Research & Scientific (R&D)Education: mastersSkills: []

Develop and evaluate cutting-edge AI/ML solutions for production-ready systems in aerospace, focusing on transformer architectures, multimodal models, and scalable research tooling. Collaborate with research engineers, benchmark new techniques, and communicate findings to leadership, while staying current with the latest ML literature and guiding transitions from prototype to production.

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Staff AI Research Engineer

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Job Summary

Develop and evaluate cutting-edge AI/ML solutions for production-ready systems in aerospace, focusing on transformer architectures, multimodal models, and scalable research tooling. Collaborate with research engineers, benchmark new techniques, and communicate findings to leadership, while staying current with the latest ML literature and guiding transitions from prototype to production.
Location: San Jose
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Research & Scientific (R&D)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms.
  • •Iterate on AI model development; starting from the data needed for training, architecture, input/output representations, evaluation, and deployment.
  • •Collaborate with other researcher engineers to prototype and validate complex solutions from academic literature.
  • •Conduct experiments to benchmark new techniques and evaluate model behavior.
  • •Develop tools and frameworks to support scalable and reproducible research and development.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 240,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •M.S or PhD degree in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering with strong emphasis on AI and ML.
  • •Enjoys solving less-defined and complex problems
  • •Familiarity with good SW practices and development, including code quality, version control, etc.
  • •Very strong with ML frameworks such as PyTorch, or TensorFlow
  • •Good understanding of Transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, multi-modal foundation models, diffusion policies, fine-tuning, model distillation, mixture of experts, and other similar topics.
Experience:AIMLAerospaceResearchProduction
Education:Master's
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PyTorchTensorFlowTransformersMultimodalDiffusionFine-tuningModel distillationMixture of experts

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Archer
Develops electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and urban air mobility systems to enable sustainable, intra-city air transportation for passengers and cargo.
Industry: Aerospace Manufacturing
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Revenue: Pre-Revenue (USD 0)
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Palo Alto, United States
Founded: 2018
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