Sr. Staff Engineer, Mechanical Integration
@ Archer

San Jose, California, United States
On Site
Posted 11 days ago

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About Archer

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to advance sustainable air mobility. The company designs, manufactures, and operates an electric aircraft that carries four passengers with minimal noise.

What you’ll do

  • Collaborate with engineering disciplines to design high-reliability, safety-critical systems for an eVTOL aircraft.
  • Manage digital mock-up zonal sections and control subsystem space allocation.
  • Oversee routing envelopes, interface requirements models (IRMs), and BOM structure.
  • Coordinate regular design fly through meetings to resolve conflicts.
  • Work with manufacturing engineering to ensure design for manufacturability.

What you need

  • 10+ years of systems or structural design engineering experience.
  • BS, MS, or PhD in engineering.
  • Expertise in CAD design and BOM management.
  • Experience with aircraft type certification under applicable regulations.
  • Excellent interpersonal and project management skills.

Bonus Qualifications

  • 2+ years of team leadership experience.
  • Experience with EWIS, environmental control systems, or structures design.
  • Shop floor liaison and model-based engineering definition experience.

Compensation & Additional Information

Base pay is targeted between $186,240 and $232,800. Actual compensation is based on experience and qualifications. Archer provides accommodations as needed and does not offer work visa sponsorship currently. For any application-related accommodations, contact the People Team at people@archer.com.

Key skills/competency

Senior Staff Engineer, mechanical, integration, CAD, BOM, eVTOL, digital mock-up, IRMs, design, manufacturing

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How to Get Hired at Archer

🎯 Tips for Getting Hired

  • Research Archer's culture: Examine their mission and aerospace innovation.
  • Customize your resume: Highlight CAD and BOM expertise.
  • Emphasize certification experience: Show aircraft regulation knowledge.
  • Prepare project examples: Discuss design conflict resolutions.

📝 Interview Preparation Advice

Technical Preparation

Review CAD and BOM software basics.
Study aircraft certification regulation standards.
Practice digital mock-up modeling techniques.
Brush up on interface requirement management.

Behavioral Questions

Describe teamwork in challenging projects.
Explain managing conflicts during design meetings.
Discuss your project management approach.
Share examples of cross-discipline collaboration.

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