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title: 'Senior Staff Applications Engineer at Archer'
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# Senior Staff Applications Engineer at Archer

- **Company:** Archer
- **Location:** San Jose, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/archer56/jobs/7996613003

## Job description

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform that delivers air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”), aviation-related physical artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide across the commercial aerospace and defense sectors.

Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.

## About the Role

Archer's Product Lifecycle Engineering (PLE) team builds and runs the engineering systems that help define Archer products. As Senior Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack, you will own one or more of Archer's internally developed engineering applications: systems of record that engineering teams rely on to manage critical, configuration-controlled technical data across product releases. You will develop the application, run it as a production service, and support the engineers across several disciplines who depend on it every day.

What You'll Do:

- Develop, maintain, and extend one or more C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core) Blazor web applications with a layered Domain/Application/Infrastructure architecture and a schema-driven data model
- Own the full development lifecycle - feature development, bug fixes, code review, testing, release, and technical documentation
- Build and maintain importers and exporters for data, including SysML (Cameo) model ingestion, CAN DBC import, and ICD report generation
- Administer your applications as production services: deployment, monitoring, backups,  upgrades, user access, and protected-branch policies
- Own the CI/CD pipeline and the application's Git-based configuration control model: branching, tagging, merges, and release/hotfix workflows
- Create/maintain integrations with other enterprise tools such as Jira, Cameo, Polarion and coordinate ICD data flow from the MBSE model to downstream avionics software, hardware, and integration test consumers
- Triage and resolve user-reported issues and data-integrity problems, with heightened availability around ICD release and hotfix windows
- Partner with Systems Engineering to translate ICD change requests into correct, traceable tool updates
- Produce user documentation, release notes, training, and operational runbooks for the user community

What You Need:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production-grade C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core) development
- Experience with Blazor or a comparable modern component-based web UI framework
- Comfort working in a layered / Domain-Driven Design architecture and evolving a schema-driven domain model
- Solid Python scripting for data import, processing, and automation
- Hands-on experience with Docker-based build and deployment
- Deep Git proficiency: branching, merging, tagging, protected branches, pull-request and release workflows (Bitbucket)
- Experience maintaining and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket Pipelines and/or TeamCity)
- Ability to independently own a mission-critical internal application from feature development through production operations, and to communicate clearly with a technical engineering user base
- Hands-on experience using Claude Code (or comparable AI coding agents) to generate, refactor, test, and document production code.

Bonus Qualifications:

- Working knowledge of avionics data buses (ARINC 429, ARINC 664/AFDX, ARINC 717, CAN, RS-422, analog, discrete) and Interface Control Document concepts
- Aerospace or regulated-industry experience, including configuration management and change-control discipline
- Experience with MBSE/SysML tooling (Cameo) and model-based interface definitions
- JSON/structured schema design and validation for interface data
- Experience building plugin/extension architectures or application authentication/SSO integration
- Comfort with AI-assisted development workflows

At Archer, we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent with the skills and leadership needed to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s strategy. For this position, we are targeting a base pay range of $210,000 - $255,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by 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.

Information collected and processed as part of any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Archer's [Candidate Privacy Policy](https://archer.com/legal/personnel-candidate-privacy-policy).

Certain positions may be eligible for visa sponsorship.

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 Aviation does not engage with external recruiting agencies/individual recruiters with whom it does not have a prior written agreement. Archer reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes that it receives and bears no responsibility for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes. If you are a recruiting agency or individual recruiter wishing to do business with Archer, please reach out to People@archer.com. All employment processes are managed by the Archer People Team.

## About Archer

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Archer is developing and manufacturing electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft to create a sustainable air taxi service for urban mobility.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: ACHR)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Adam Goldstein, Brett Adcock [linkedin.com]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Airlines and Aviation / eVTOL aircraft manufacturing and operations
- **Target customers**: Airline operators, urban commuters, and corporate partners (B2B and B2C)
- **Mission or purpose**: Advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility by creating a quick, safe, sustainable, and cost-effective electric airline [greenhouse.io]

## Products & Services
- **Midnight eVTOL Aircraft**: A fully electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft designed to carry passengers with minimal noise, range up to 100 miles at speeds up to 150 mph. Dual-mode capability (VTOL and CTOL) [linkedin.com]
- **Archer Airline Operations**: Vertically integrated airline service intended to operate air taxi flights in cities globally.
- **Archer FBO (Fixed Base Operator)**: Acquired Hawthorne Airport FBO in Los Angeles, offering full airport services [linkedin.com]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $2.0 billion (as of mid-2026) [linkedin.com]
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue $300,000; Total funding raised $2.83 billion (post-IPO equity rounds from Stellantis, United Airlines, BlackRock) [linkedin.com]
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Stellantis, United Airlines, BlackRock; partnerships include United Airlines (200 aircraft order), UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (certification program), White House eVTOL Integration Pilot Program [linkedin.com]
- **Growth Signals**: 1,158 employees (+44.5% YoY); US operations expected to begin in 2026 under eIPP; expanded flight test program with daily piloted flights; certification progress in UAE; Florida air taxi bill passed [linkedin.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically integrated** – designs, manufactures, and operates its own aircraft and airline, controlling the full stack.
- **Dual-mode aircraft** capable of both vertical and conventional takeoff/landing, increasing operational flexibility.
- **Strong strategic partnerships** with major airlines (United) and automotive OEM (Stellantis) provide capital, manufacturing expertise, and distribution.
- **First-mover status** in eVTOL certification and commercialization in the US and UAE.

## Strategic Focus
- Launch commercial air taxi operations in US cities in 2026 under the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP).
- Achieve type certification with FAA and international regulators (UAE GCAA).
- Expand manufacturing scale with Stellantis partnership and build out vertiport infrastructure.
- Continue aircraft testing and data collection to validate safety and performance.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-paced, mission-driven environment at the forefront of sustainable aviation and electric transportation.
- **Work environment**: Primarily on-site at San Jose, CA HQ; additional offices in Palo Alto, CA; Salinas, CA; Huntington Beach, CA; and Hampshire, UK. Remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated.
- **Notable perks**: Not explicitly listed; emphasis on engineering innovation, flight test operations, and cross-disciplinary teams (AI, software, hardware, design).
- **Engineering culture**: 704 employees in technical roles (39%); active hiring for backend, AI, embedded, systems engineering, and flight sciences roles. Strong talent poaching from Tesla, Apple, Joby, Boeing, Lockheed Martin [linkedin.com]
- **Employee rating**: 3.7/5.0 (118 reviews) – Career 3.8, Compensation 3.7, Culture 3.4, Work-Life 3.0 [linkedin.com]

## Sources
1. [archer.com](https://www.archer.com)
2. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/archer56/jobs/7625743003)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/flyarcher)

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