Automation Engineer, Archer

Salary not provided
Junior and Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Office located in San Jose, CA

Archer

Urban air mobility developer

Job no longer available

Archer

Urban air mobility developer

501-1000 employees

B2CSustainabilityTransportManufacturingFlightsAerospace

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
Junior and Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

Office located in San Jose, CA

501-1000 employees

B2CSustainabilityTransportManufacturingFlightsAerospace

Company mission

To accelerate the benefits of sustainable air mobility.

Role

Who you are

  • The ideal candidate for this position will be an individual with equipment design experience, equipment troubleshooting experience (both from a mechanical & controls perspective) as the role will involve designing tools, fixtures on the fly, fixing & troubleshooting in-production equipment, etc
  • 2+ year work experience and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronic, or a equivalent & related practical experience
  • Experience commissioning and improving equipment
  • Proficiency using 2D & 3D CAD to generate manufacturing layouts, assembly models, and detailed part drawings for fabrication
  • Demonstrated experience in statistical process control and GD&T
  • Excellent communicator, both in presentations and written reports
  • Able to maintain organization and focus in a highly dynamic environment
  • Prefer ability to travel 10% of the time, both domestically and internationally

Desirable

  • Development of electric powertrain manufacturing equipment and process
  • Experience as an equipment engineer in an EV company
  • Prior internships or full-time experience in Aerospace manufacturing engineering or similar role
  • NX software experience
  • Experience developing production lines from prototype to production
  • Experience with PLM, MES, and ERP software
  • Direct experience programming and troubleshooting industrial automation (PLC, robots, gantries, etc…)

What the job involves

  • Uses engineering tools to design/analyze hardware for product assemblies: changes, new development, unitization, and integration
  • Design manufacturing equipment and fixtures in-house
  • Develop specification for tooling and automation equipment
  • Responsible for the completion of technical engineering tasks from definition to deployment through installation
  • Manage equipment design using functional requirements, technical specifications, as well as time and budget requirements
  • Coordinates with manufacturing and design to deliver on project scope, schedule and services
  • Create Training documentation for installation
  • Oversee technician/operator training on the equipment
  • Processes data, writes engineering reports, and diagnoses equipment system malfunctions
  • Implement process control parameters and strategies to ensure process capability
  • Contributes to reliability analysis such as risk assessments, FMEA, etc.by gathering and examining data
  • Define and execute product verification/validation testing
  • Assists Manufacturing during assembly and production testing
  • Participate in early prototype product builds to characterize and develop both product and process critical parameters
  • Support first unit builds and testing of the production system
  • Develop MES interface with equipment and oversee implementation by integrators
  • Support in-line troubleshooting of production lines
  • Develop handoff packages for production/sustaining engineering teams

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 headshot

Freddie

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

44% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (1 round)

Jul 2020

$55.7m

SERIES A

Total funding: $55.7m

Company values

  • Transparency - We rely on transparent, direct, and honest communication to achieve our mission in the most productive way possible as one team. We’re all in this together
  • Long-term thinking - We are long-term, mission-driven thinkers with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are not afraid to be bold, think creatively, and overcome any obstacles along the way to turning our dream into reality
  • Safety - Safety first, always. We are dedicated to ensuring the safety of our employees, future passengers, and the environment by building a high redundancy aircraft with no single point of failure. Through testing, high quality materials, and precision we will never compromise on safety
  • Sustainability - We’re dedicated to creating an aircraft that will push the world towards a zero-emissions future. By using advanced technology, electric batteries, and safe materials, the environment and health of our communities always comes first
  • Celebration - Most importantly, we celebrate together. From team events to test flights and everything in between, we know how to have fun

Company HQ

Tasman and Zanker, San Jose, CA

Leadership

Started their career in financial services, before co-founding Vettery, a talent marketplace, in 2012. Founded Archer in 2018.

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Share this job

View 9 more jobs at Archer