Senior Staff Systems Engineer

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. As a member of our Flight Control Actuation System team you will define, design, validate, and verify system level requirements while working with various organizations to ensure requirement compliance for the flight control actuation systems of our two aircraft. You will be responsible for showing compliance with product and regulatory requirements while acting as a multi-disciplinary integrator at the flight control system and aircraft level as a whole. What you’ll do: Author and take responsibility for the flight control and actuation system-level product requirements while ensuring compatibility with all interfacing systems. Ensure the requirement set is complete and correct, with traceability to and fulfilling business, technical, and operational objectives Coordinate with other Systems Engineers to ensure the fully integrated system meets its requirements and is optimized Collaborate with systems and safety engineering team to define the functional breakdown, and identify functional and physical interfaces Participate in architecture definition, trade studies, and mutli-disciplinary integration problem solving Support suppliers in the development of lower-level requirement sets with other systems engineers, technical leads, and subject matter experts Review and assess internal and supplier designs, documentation, and performance to ensure correctness, completeness, and quality of the product Coordinate the Validation and Verification processes at the system level, ensuring the plans are followed and process independence is maintained Contribute to improving internal processes and tools Contribute to writing system level verification plan and procedures, including formal requirements verification, end-to-end robustness testing, performance analysis, production acceptance test procedures Support development of compliance documentation such as the system certification plan, system compliance checklists, system review reports, system descriptions, issue paper development and responses Support development and review of aircraft level technical documentation such as aircraft manuals and procedures. What you’ll need: General Collaborative mindset Excellent verbal and written…