Senior Systems Engineer, Fly By Wire
ArcherAbout the role
<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. We are designing, manufacturing, and operating an all-electric aircraft that can carry four passengers while producing minimal noise.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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.</span></p></div><h2><strong>The opportunity</strong></h2> <p>As a member of our Fly-by-Wire (FBW) team you will define, validate, and verify Archer requirements while working with our suppliers to ensure proper requirements flow-down and proper validation and verification activities on their side too. As the FCS interacts directly with the pilot and interfaces with several major systems on the aircraft (including propulsion and actuation systems), you will be supporting critical aircraft functions that are crucial for the safety and the success of the Archer Midnight eVTOL aircraft. You will also be supporting the aircraft certification activities, showing compliance with regulatory requirements from the FAA and other authorities around the world for the flight control system of our first certified aircraft. </p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Manage system-level requirements and execute their validation and verification activities following Archer processes that are based on ARP-4754A.</li> <li>Coordinate with other Systems Engineers to ensure the fully integrated system meets its requirements and is optimized.</li> <li>Support suppliers in the development of lower-level requirement sets with other systems engineers, technical leads, and subject matter experts</li> <li>Participate in mutli-disciplinary integration testing, troubleshooting, and problem solving</li> <li>Support equipment level, system level, and aircraft level testing to be done at Archer or supplier laboratories, and Archer flight test.</li> <li>Support development of compliance documentation including test procedures and test reports to support validation, verification, and certification.</li> <li>Interface directly with other aircraft systems teams, with our suppliers, and with laboratories and aircraft testing teams.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What we are looking for</strong></h2> <h3>General</h3> <ul> &
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