Ai Autonomy Engineer
- Countries
- USA
- Job Types
- software & tech
- Experience
- mid
- Organization Types
- aerospace, transportation & mobility
- Location
- San Jose
- Posted Date
- Company
- Archer Aviation
- Salary
- $160,000.0 - $235,000.0 annually
AI Summary
Job Description
Develop and integrate multi-model systems (VLN/VLA, perception, language models) for aircraft autonomy. Fine-tune foundation models, validate through data-driven testing, and deploy models to edge hardware under real-world constraints. Partner with safety and simulation engineers.
Hard Requirements
- 8+ years of experience
- M.S., PhD, or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Robotics, or related field
- Strong applied machine learning depth
- Hands-on experience building, fine-tuning, and/or integrating vision-language or VLA models
- Solid grasp of transformer architectures and multimodal foundation models
- Strong with PyTorch or comparable frameworks
- Comfortable owning model-serving integration end to end
- Real 0→1 experience
Soft Requirements
- VLN or embodied-agent navigation experience
- Experience with reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or self-supervised training
- Edge deployment experience
- Shipped evaluation tooling or benchmarks
- Experience in a safety-critical or regulated engineering process