Archer Aviation
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How Archer Aviation hires
Truth index
B 73/100
Median time to fill
99 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
90%
Reposted roles
0%
Archer Aviation scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 90% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 99 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Archer Aviation is an American company founded in 2018 that is developing Midnight, a battery-electric aircraft designed to take off vertically and carry a pilot and four passengers on short urban routes. Its argument is that helicopter travel has always been too loud, too expensive and too unsafe for routine city use, and that electric propulsion with distributed rotors changes all three. Headquartered in San Jose and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it is working through Federal Aviation Administration certification while building a manufacturing plant in Georgia with Stellantis as its production partner.
News
Archer Aviation (ACHR) Stock Plummets Nearly 5% Amid Cash Burn and Warrant Concerns
Archer Aviation (ACHR) stock dropped 4.7% on warrant fears and cash burn concerns. Insiders sold $1.1M+ in shares while analysts maintain Hold ratings.
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Archer Aviation (ACHR) Stock Sinks 5% - Is the Cash Burn Problem Getting Worse?
Archer Aviation (ACHR) stock fell 4.7% to $5.215 on warrant expiry fears, heavy cash burn, and insider selling worth over $1.1M last quarter.
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Archer Aviation (ACHR) Stock Drops 6% as ARK Invest Adds to Position
Archer Aviation (ACHR) stock declined 5.66% Wednesday as Treasury yields climbed, though ARK Invest purchased 575,700 shares worth $3.35M.
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Archer Aviation (ACHR) Stock Tumbles 6% While Cathie Wood Loads Up
Archer Aviation (ACHR) stock fell 5.66% to $5.50 Wednesday as rising Treasury yields pressured growth stocks, despite ARK Invest buying 575,700 shares worth $3.35M.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Archer Aviation over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
198
Postings analysed
111
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python50%
MATLAB29%
C++20%
SQL12%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch7%
TensorFlow5%
Transformers4%
React.js4%
Databases
PostgreSQL8%
Redis4%
Apache Iceberg1%
Google BigQuery1%
Cloud & platforms
AWS17%
Kubernetes15%
RTOS9%
Linux8%
AI & ML
LLM6%
Claude1%
Core ML1%
Gaussian Splatting1%
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Full Archer Aviation tech stack
198 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$190k
Typical range
$65k – $354k
Open positions
129
118
Jobs
Junior
2.5%
Middle
6.8%
Senior
43.2%
Staff
39.8%
Principal
1.7%
Architect
5.9%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | 3 | $188k | $178k – $221k |
| Middle | 8 | $142k | $65k – $198k |
| Senior | 51 | $180k | $65k – $354k |
| Staff | 47 | $190k | $100k – $268k |
| Principal | 2 | $294k | $249k – $340k |
| Architect | 7 | $238k | $105k – $285k |
Highest paying role
Senior Manager, Dimensional Engineering - (SJ2026SB)
$354k
Normalized to USD per year
Products
Air Taxi Networks
Route and infrastructure partnerships with airlines and city operators, including launch plans in the United States and the United Arab Emirates. Landing infrastructure and air traffic integration are as much of the problem as the aircraft itself.
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Defense Programmes
Hybrid and autonomous aircraft variants developed for defence customers through a partnership with Anduril. Defence work provides revenue and accumulated flight hours well before commercial certification completes, which matters for a company burning cash against a regulatory timetable.
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Manufacturing Operations
The production facility in Covington, Georgia built with Stellantis as manufacturing partner. Bringing automotive production discipline to aircraft assembly is the company's answer to the cost problem that has always limited rotorcraft.
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Type Certification Programme
The multi-year process of proving the aircraft meets Federal Aviation Administration airworthiness requirements. Certification rather than engineering is the real gate on the business, and its timing has repeatedly moved for the whole industry.
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Midnight
A piloted electric vertical takeoff aircraft carrying four passengers on trips of around twenty to fifty miles. Its twelve rotors provide redundancy that a single main rotor cannot, which is central to the safety case being made to regulators.
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People
Adam Goldstein
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Adam Goldstein co-founded the company in 2018 after building and selling a travel technology business. He took it public through a special purpose acquisition company in 2021.
Brett Adcock
Co-founder
Brett Adcock co-founded the company with Goldstein and served as co-chief executive. He left in 2022 to found the humanoid robotics company Figure.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
146
26 opened / 24 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
97 days
faster than 17% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~1 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
49%
Hardware
10% ▼
Backend
8% ▼
Operations
7% ▲
Field & Service
4%
AI/ML
3%
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+13 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: New Haven
Sep 2026
Added Objective-C to stack
Sep 2026
Added MapKit to stack
Sep 2026
Added Kotlin to stack
Sep 2026
Added Scrum to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agile to stack
Sep 2026
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Sep 2026
Added Superset to stack
Sep 2026
Added Dimensional Modeling to stack
Sep 2026
New location: Salinas
Sep 2026
New location: Huntington Beach
Sep 2026
New location: Munich
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
16
Hiring now
7
Countries
8
Busiest office
San Jose
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San Jose
United States
HQ
77 Rio (77 Rio Robles)
135 open roles 90 posted in 90 days 32% engineering 1% remote 1000-5000 est. staff $192k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering, Backend, Hardware
Santa Clara
United States
Plant / site
77 Rio (77 Rio Robles)
5 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $184k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
Huntington Beach
United States
Regional office
Broad Point (15400 Graham St Huntington)
2 open roles 10-50 est. staff $121k Avg Salary
hires for Field & Service, Industrial Engineering
Salinas
United States
Plant / site
Salinas Terminal Office (20 Mortensen)
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $114k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
São José dos Campos
Brazil
Engineering / R&D
Remote - BRA -São José dos Campos
1 open roles 100% engineering 100% remote 10-50 est. staff
hires for Hardware
Munich
Germany
Regional office
Remote - DEU - Munich
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
New Haven
United States
HQ (190 Tasman)
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $190k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
São Paulo
Brazil
Regional office
Remote - BRA - Sao Paulo
Los Angeles
United States
Regional office
Los Angeles
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Remote - SGP - Singapore
Vienna
Austria
Regional office
Remote - AUT - Vienna
Washington
United States
Regional office
Washington DC (500 L'Enfant Plaza)
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
Regional office
Masdar Central Park (G01 & G02 offices Masdar/Khalifa)
Vancouver
Canada
Regional office
Remote - CAN - Vancouver
Bristol
United Kingdom
Regional office
Bristol
Mountain View
United States
Regional office
Design Studios (1090 Terra Bella)
Jobs
$195k – $205k per year • In office • Master's Degree • San Jose
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
Transformers
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Mixture of Experts
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
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$160k – $190k per year • In office • Master's Degree • San Jose
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
Transformers
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Mixture of Experts
Self-Supervised Learning
Edge AI
Vision-Language-Action
Model Distillation
Machine Learning
Robotics
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
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$190k – $237k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
Java
Rust
PostgreSQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
Apache Pulsar
AI/ML
Time Series Forecasting
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $129k – $257k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • San Jose
Python
PowerShell
Bash
YARA
Splunk
GCP
Prometheus
Azure
AWS
Cortex
SLI/SLO/SLA
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Sentinel
Ghidra
IDA Pro
YARA
Cuckoo Sandbox
Google SecOps
Cortex XSOAR
SIEM
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$200k – $250k per year • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
Java
Rust
PostgreSQL
Redis
Apache Kafka
Apache Pulsar
AI/ML
Flink
LiveKit
Edge AI
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
OpenTofu
WebRTC
Prometheus
Azure
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Grafana
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≈ $56k – $122k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Brazil) • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • São José dos Campos
Python
Verilog
C++
VHDL
MATLAB
Simulink
DevOps
RTOS
Linux
TCP/IP
Management
UML
Apply
≈ $193k – $361k per year (Estimated) • In office • 8+ years exp • Master's Degree • San Jose
Fine-tuning
Reinforcement Learning
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
Self-Supervised Learning
Vision-Language-Action
Machine Learning
Robotics
Imitation Learning
Reinforcement Learning
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$160k – $198k per year • In office • 3+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
Go
JavaScript
Rust
TypeScript
Node JS
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
LiveKit
Frontend
Vue.js
GraphQL
React.js
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
WebRTC
WebSockets
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
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≈ $85k – $171k per year (Estimated) • In office • 1+ year exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Altium Designer
LTspice
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$145k – $180k per year • In office • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
Python
Rust
SQL
Terraform
AWS
Docker
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≈ $154k – $312k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Jose
SQL
PostgreSQL
Apache Iceberg
Apache Kafka
Apache Pulsar
StarRocks
AI/ML
Spark
Airflow
Dagster
MLFlow
dbt
Speech Recognition
Flink
Anomaly Detection
Time Series Forecasting
Feature Store
DevOps
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Amazon S3
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