Lead Flight Controls, Software Engineer – Special Programs

🕒 September 3

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $138.2k - $190.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Archer

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501 - 1000 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🚀 Aerospace

Manufacturing • Logistics • Aerospace

Archer is an aerospace company building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft focused on improving mobility in cities. The company's mission is to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. Archer is designing, manufacturing, and operating a fully electric aircraft that can carry four passengers for 60 miles at speeds of up to 150mph while producing minimal noise. Archer's team is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

📋 Description

• Lead flight control law design and analysis for prototype vehicles, including control law development, flight dynamics modeling, and stability and control assessment • Lead development of embedded flight control and autopilot software, from architecture through implementation and flight test support • Support rapid prototyping end-to-end, from concept modeling and simulation through hardware-in-the-loop test and flight test support • Own the flight controls and software discipline within Special Programs, setting technical approach, standards, and analysis/development methods • Conduct technical feasibility assessments of emerging concepts, RFPs, and mission requirements • Serve as a cross-functional technical contributor across Special Programs efforts outside the core focus area • Collaborate with program leads, Special Programs engineers, and broader Archer engineering teams • Produce technical documentation, trade studies, and analysis packages for design maturity reviews and opportunity/capture decisions • Represent Special Programs work in internal reviews and discussions with government stakeholders as needed • Work with significant technical ownership and autonomy on defense-focused, rapid-prototyping efforts

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Controls, Electrical, or Computer Engineering (advanced degree a plus) • Demonstrated experience in flight control law development, flight dynamics, or stability and control analysis for aerospace platforms • Demonstrated experience developing embedded flight control or autopilot software • Familiarity with relevant control design, simulation, and embedded software development tools • Demonstrated ability to work across the full development lifecycle — concept through prototype — in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment • Experience or strong aptitude for evaluating technical feasibility of early-stage concepts • Willingness and ability to contribute outside your core focus area in support of program needs • Ability to work independently with significant technical ownership and no direct-report support structure • 8–12 years of relevant engineering experience (or equivalent demonstrated experience in rapid-prototyping / advanced-programs environments) • Must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee), as defined by ITAR/EAR • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance • Ability to travel up to 10% of the time • Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position

🏖️ Benefits

• Pay-for-performance culture • Reasonable accommodations for physical or mental disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs • Equal Opportunity employment