We are looking for 0 to 1 Software Engineers to join an elite team that is building out Archer’s Airline Operations Software Ecosystem. Engineers who have built and shipped multiple products across disciplines and languages are encouraged to apply. Experience with backend development combined with AI-focused front-end development is especially valued. 

This role is 10-days a month in-person at our HQ in San Jose, CA.

What You'll Do:

• Build Great Software: Take product requirements and turn them into beautiful, reliable, and high quality web and mobile applications
• Create and manage backend infrastructure including building database schemas, API architecture, orchestration services, and refining architecture
• Product Development: Lead end-to-end technical execution and receive full ownership of the software development lifecycle
• System Architecture: Design and implement the architecture and tech stack that will serve as the backbone for our platform while balancing scalability, speed, and reliability
  Contribute to the Roadmap: Ideate, plan, and prototype technical tools for aircraft performance and dispatch settings
• Work Cross-Functionally: Work with design, data science, and technical aviation experts to supercharge the features and products you are working on
• Knowledge of Code-Generation: Use the latest code-generation technologies to streamline your workflow and achieve breakthrough productivity
• AI-Native Product Building: Implement and productize novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms developed by our AI/ML research team 

What You Need:

• Minimum of 5 Years of post-college work or entrepreneurial experience 
• 4-Year College Degree in an Engineering Discipline (or multiple pieces of evidence of outstanding individual technical achievement)
• Evidence of End-End Product Ownership: Experience building all parts of software from front-end to back-end to cloud deployment
• Personal Projects: Rich Github history with examples of personal projects that can be shared with the hiring team and/or open-source contributions
• Technologies: Next.JS, Java Script, React, React Native, Python, Fast API, PostGres
• Design: Ability to create intuitive, clean, and professional products without a dedicated designer or design system
• AI: Strong understanding of how to implement and train AI systems into SaaS products and willingness to learn and adapt to building voice agent
• Infrastructure: Familiarity with building server-less & micro-service in popular cloud hyperscalers and managing production grade CI/CD pipelines
• Adaptability: Quickly and iteratively respond to needs of customers and turn product changes around on tight timelines

Bonus Qualifications:

• Infrastructure experience: k8s, S3, RDS, SQS, Lambda, Datadock, Docker, and Temporal Orchestration Service
• Strong passion for aviation and/or UAM
• Willingness and ability to transition between mobile and web development

Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $170,000.00 - $195,000.00  Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

We are empowering pilots with next-generation aviation technology. You will join a small, expert team with big ambitions, directly shaping a product that blends on-device artificial intelligence, aviation expertise, peripheral integration, and seamless mobile user experience.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect, develop, and maintain core iOS application features in Swift with an emphasis on performance, stability, and usability
• Deploy and optimize on-device machine learning models (via MLX and CoreML) for real-time intelligence
• Integrate and visualize mapping, live weather feeds, sensor data, and other aviation inputs
• Ensure the app operates reliably offline
• Coordinate closely with product, design, and AI teams to translate concepts, research, and requirements into flight-ready features
• Uphold industry best practices for testing, accessibility, code quality, and compliance
• Own the App Store release process, including provisioning, profiling, and ongoing support/analytics
• Contribute to technical roadmaps, peer code reviews, and iterative feature delivery
• Help shape a dynamic, fast-moving engineering culture where shipping matters

• Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of professional iOS development experience
• Fluency in Swift and familiarity with modern UIKit/SwiftUI architectures
• Track record of shipping and supporting apps on the Apple App Store
• Experience deploying on-device machine learning with Core ML, MLX, or similar frameworks \
• Familiarity with mapping technologies
• Strong testing, debugging, and optimization skills for mission-critical apps
• Experience in developing offline first apps

• Background or hands-on experience in aviation, navigation, or weather-related applications
• Experience with 3D graphics, Metal, OpenGL or other advanced graphics technologies
• Understanding of aviation data formats, regulations, or EFB use cases
• Experience in small, agile teams and product development cycles

Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $140,000 - $200,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

What You’ll Do:

As a strong AI and ML fundamentalist who is an expert at developing cutting-edge AI solutions to complex problems, you will develop code that eventually integrates into production and be responsible for:

• 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.
• Communicate research findings to leadership in a concise, and convincing manner.
• Stay current with the latest developments in AI/ML and identify relevant innovations.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

What You Need:

• 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.
• Has strong ability to debug and determine requirements for AI models in terms of data, training, and evaluation.
• Is up to date with research literature and recent ML techniques and methodologies.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with Reinforcement Learning, self-supervised training, and imitation learning is a plus.
• Experience developing VLA (Vision Language Action) models for robotic manipulation and mobility is a plus.
• Experience developing production AI models is a plus.
• Publications at top conferences are a plus.

Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $160,000.00 - $180,000.00 Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

What You’ll Do:

As a Staff AI and ML fundamentalist who is an expert at developing cutting-edge AI solutions to complex problems, you will develop code that eventually integrates into production and be responsible for:

• 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.
• Communicate research findings to leadership in a concise, and convincing manner.
• Stay current with the latest developments in AI/ML and identify relevant innovations.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

What You Need:

• 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.
• Has strong ability to debug and determine requirements for AI models in terms of data, training, and evaluation.
• Is up to date with research literature and recent ML techniques and methodologies.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with Reinforcement Learning, self-supervised training, and imitation learning is a plus.
• Experience developing VLA (Vision Language Action) models for robotic manipulation and mobility is a plus.
• Experience developing production AI models is a plus.
• Publications at top conferences are a plus.

Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $190,000 - $240,000 Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

What You’ll Do:

As a Principal AI and ML fundamentalist who is an expert at developing cutting-edge AI solutions to complex problems, you will develop code that eventually integrates into production and be responsible for:

• 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.
• Communicate research findings to leadership in a concise, and convincing manner.
• Stay current with the latest developments in AI/ML and identify relevant innovations.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

What You Need:

• 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.
• Has strong ability to debug and determine requirements for AI models in terms of data, training, and evaluation.
• Is up to date with research literature and recent ML techniques and methodologies.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with Reinforcement Learning, self-supervised training, and imitation learning is a plus.
• Experience developing VLA (Vision Language Action) models for robotic manipulation and mobility is a plus.
• Experience developing production AI models is a plus.
• Publications at top conferences are a plus.

Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $270,000.00 - $340,000.00 Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

What You’ll Do:

As a strong AI and ML fundamentalist who is an expert at developing cutting-edge AI solutions to complex problems, you will develop code that eventually integrates into production and be responsible for:

• 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.
• Communicate research findings to leadership in a concise, and convincing manner.
• Stay current with the latest developments in AI/ML and identify relevant innovations.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

What You Need:

• 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.
• Has strong ability to debug and determine requirements for AI models in terms of data, training, and evaluation.
• Is up to date with research literature and recent ML techniques and methodologies.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Experience with Reinforcement Learning, self-supervised training, and imitation learning is a plus.
• Experience developing VLA (Vision Language Action) models for robotic manipulation and mobility is a plus.
• Experience developing production AI models is a plus.
• Publications at top conferences are a plus.

Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $160,000.00 - $180,000.00 Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Role Overview

You will join a small, expert team with big ambitions, directly shaping an end-to-end product that blends artificial intelligence, aviation expertise, and seamless mobile user experience. In this role, you’ll own the development of core features across our iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS apps while refining and modularizing our existing Swift architecture. Partnering closely with our in-house designers, you will turn complex design concepts into seamless, shippable code and help steer the future of our digital flight tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, high-performance features for iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS
• Partner with designers to build intuitive UI/UX that follows platform best practices
• Refactor and modularize Swift and Objective-C code to improve quality and reusability
• Integrate RESTful APIs with efficient data handling and error management
• Manage the full app lifecycle, including builds, certificates, and App Store submissions
• Participate in code reviews and uphold best practices in architecture, testing, and Git
• Collaborate with our Backend Engineering Teams to troubleshoot issues and ensure seamless end-to-end integration

What You Need:

• Minimum 3 years of commercial software development experience, including iOS app lifecycle management
• Experience writing both Swift and Objective-C
• Strong knowledge of SwiftUI, UIKit, and other core Apple frameworks (specifically MapKit or similar mapping SDKs)
• Experience integrating REST APIs, with enough backend understanding to troubleshoot issues and contribute to API design
• Strong understanding of iOS build systems, provisioning, certificates, and App Store requirements
• Strong proficiency in Git

Bonus Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience in one (or all) of the following would be advantageous:
  • Aviation
  • Network-driven application development
  • Experience working with Metal or OpenGL

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

What You’ll Do 

• Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms, concentrating on Large Language Models (LLMs), automated speech recognition (transcription), and unified multimodal architectures. 
• Iterate on AI model development, starting from the data needed for training, architecture, input/output representations, evaluation, and deployment for complex sequence-to-sequence and multimodal tasks. 
• Collaborate with other research engineers to prototype and validate complex solutions from academic literature in natural language processing and speech. 
• Conduct experiments to benchmark new techniques and evaluate model behavior. 
• Develop tools and frameworks to support scalable and reproducible research and development. 
• Communicate research findings to leadership in a concise, and convincing manner. 
• Stay current with the latest developments in Generative AI and Speech/Language Models and identify relevant innovations. 
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems. 

Minimum Education Requirement: Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computational Sciences, Machine Learning, Informatics.  

Minimum Experience Requirements: AI/ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Research Scientist, AI Research Engineer or related job title in which 3 years of experience with developing and supporting production machine learning systems, including model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retraining, using modern observability and experimentation tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Statsig); building ML and deep learning models using Python and PyTorch, including NLP tools (e.g., Huggingface, NLTK, spaCy, transformer-based models); with largescale data pipelines using distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Databricks); and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into ML solutions PLUS 1 year of experience developing computer vision or multimodal ML systems (e.g., OpenCV, YOLO, vision transformers) were gained.  

Alternate Education Requirement: PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computational Sciences, Machine Learning, Informatics. 

Alternate Experience Requirements: AI/ML Engineer, Software Engineer, Research Scientist, AI Research Engineer or related job title in which 2 years of experience with developing and supporting production machine learning systems, including model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and retraining, using modern observability and experimentation tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Statsig); building ML and deep learning models using Python and PyTorch, including NLP tools (e.g., Huggingface, NLTK, spaCy, transformer-based models); with largescale data pipelines using distributed processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Databricks); and collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into ML solutions PLUS 1 year of experience developing computer vision or multimodal ML systems (e.g., OpenCV, YOLO, vision transformers) were gained.

Please apply online at: https://www.archer.com/careers. Must put job code SJ2026YM on resume/CV and cover letter. 

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 $240,000 to $252,000 per year.

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