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Salary: USD 172,800 - 237,600 / annual
Archer Technologies is building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft designed to carry four passengers with minimal noise, advancing sustainable air mobility. This role is central to the aircraft's physical realization, requiring deep expertise in systems integration and architecture.
You will lead the development and optimization of the complete aircraft structure and subsystem integration. Key responsibilities include owning zonal management of the digital mock-up for large aircraft sections, controlling space allocation for subsystems, establishing mounting strategies, managing routing envelopes, and ensuring all subsystems are accessible and maintainable. You'll manage interface requirements models (IRMs) and master geometry models for large aircraft zones, maintain aircraft systems configuration management, and assist in defining assembly processes and standardization across the engineering department.
On the analysis and project management side, you'll conduct trade studies to optimize system integration, mass efficiency, and flight performance. You'll support test planning and validation activities for major assemblies, analyze test data, and implement design improvements based on findings.
Collaboration is essential: you'll work cross-functionally with all engineering disciplines to lead multidisciplinary trade studies on aircraft-level architecture decisions, participate in design reviews, and provide technical expertise for critical integration decisions. You'll also collaborate with sourcing and quality teams on supplier selection, component qualification, and inspection requirements.
Required qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering, 5+ years of full-vehicle level systems integration and interface management experience in aerospace or automotive, and experience generating Bills of Materials and managing change control processes. You must be proficient in CAD modeling (NX preferred), 2D drawings, tolerance analysis, and GD&T, with strong experience managing large assembly models (100-1000+ components) and in-context modeling. Understanding of mass budgeting, configuration management, systems integration, and aerospace manufacturing processes (machining, joining, composites) is essential. Excellent cross-functional coordination, documentation, and communication skills are required, along with the ability to manage multiple integration challenges simultaneously.
Bonus qualifications include aerospace development and certification experience, deep understanding of prototype development lifecycle for experimental flight test vehicles, familiarity with regulatory requirements and design practices for system separation, hands-on experience in a prototype environment, and a self-motivated, detail-oriented, systems-thinking approach.
