Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Archer
$134.4-168k
Office located in San Jose, CA
Urban air mobility developer
Be an early applicant
Urban air mobility developer
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$134.4-168k
Office located in San Jose, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the benefits of sustainable air mobility.
Role
Who you are
- At least a BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related degree
- Proficiency with C
- Fluency with Python
- Experience developing embedded software - preferably in a regulated environment complying with safety standards like DO-178C or ISO 26262
- Familiarity with debuggers and lab instruments such as oscilloscopes and bus analyzers
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
Desirable
- Experience working on software for Flight controls systems, Electric Vehicles (EV) powertrains, including motor control and battery management systems
- Familiarity with modeling tools like UML or SysML
- Knowledge of Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and multi-threading
- Experience with civil aerospace SW development
What the job involves
- Develop safety-critical software components for the Powertrain software team, including battery management systems, motor controllers and core/platform
- Participate in planning, design, coding, and testing
- Work with system engineers to decompose requirements into high-level and low-level software requirements in compliance with DO-178C
- Work with multi-disciplinary teams to develop and integrate complex hardware/software systems
- Software requirements decomposition, analysis, definition, and traceability
- Software analyses, requirements-based testing, and structural coverage analysis
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of our processes to increase safety and efficiency
Our take
Electric air taxis may sound like a pipedream, but companies like Archer are in the process of testing models that they hope to begin producing at scale in 2025. Designed to be quiet and efficient, its current model can fly at speeds of 150 miles per hour and cover 60 miles per flight. With urban transport in mind, these air taxis are both greener and vastly more efficient than traditional vehicles.
Given the congestion and pollution issues that many cities are facing, it's easy to imagine such transport taking over. It’s also worth noting that although Archer plans to run them with human pilots initially, the company has automation as part of its long-term goals.
Other players exist in this space: EHang, a Chinese firm, flew its first aerial taxi in America in 2020. However, Archer has big backers and customers such as United Airlines (acting both as an investor and launch customer) and manufacturing partner Stellantis with whom it is mass-producing its flagship Midnight eVTOL aircraft.
There's certainly a growing demand for clean transport without sacrificing speed, but many barriers still remain in Archer's way as it must help to initiate a seismic shift in transportation infrastructure and behaviors to reach mass adoption. That being said, it has the funding behind it, raising close to $2 billion in post-IPO funding since 2021.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2020
$55.7m
SERIES A
Total funding: $55.7m
Company HQ
Tasman and Zanker, San Jose, CA
Leadership
Adam Goldstein
(CEO)Started their career in financial services, before co-founding Vettery, a talent marketplace, in 2012. Founded Archer in 2018.
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