# AI Autonomy 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 the AI Autonomy Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of bringing intelligent, learned behavior to real aircraft - building and deploying the vision-language and VLA models that let Archer's aircraft perceive, reason, and navigate in the real world. Please note that we are currently hiring for Senior and Staff level positions. What You’ll Do: Develop and integrate multi-model systems; VLN/VLA, perception, and language models. Design benchmarks, measure success and fail

- **Id**: 206852
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/archer-aviation-staff-engineer-ai-autonomy>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-14T23:29:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T14:24:03Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 180
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5907
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Aerospace Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 6898
- **Name**: Archer Aviation
- **Domain**: archer.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/archer>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 74
- **Ghost share**: 0.081
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.014
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 99
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 172000
- **Max usd**: 331000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1332

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Imitation Learning** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Self-Supervised Learning** — Optional: no
- **Vision-Language-Action** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 180

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-05T07:55:12Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 72; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 91; Filings 12m: 91

## Liveness

- **Score**: 23
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.635
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 180
- **Expected fill days**: 99
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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