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Software Engineer - SJ2026BS

Archer · San Jose · United States

$169,208–$177,668 per yearSoftware Engineer

Posted: 8/25/2026 · Last checked: 10/12/2026

Job description

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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.

What You’ll Do 

 

  • Architect, design, and implement distributed data services to support largescale data processing needs. 
  • Lead the orchestration and optimization of high-volume ETL pipelines for timeseries and telemetry data, including end-to-end pipelines critical to flight test programs. 
  • Oversee and manage Kubernetes-native autoscaling services to efficiently handle dynamic workloads. 
  • Architect and implement data threshold–based alerting pipelines, and partner closely with avionics engineers and cross-functional stakeholder teams to identify critical data features that accelerate data review and analysis. 
  • Continuously research, evaluate, and adopt new data ingestion, storage, and retrieval technologies to improve performance, reliability, and scalability of the data platform, transforming raw data into intelligent analytical products. 

 

Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

 

Minimum Experience Requirement: Software Engineer, Data Engineer or related job title in which 12 months of experience with Python, AWS, Data Governance, ETL Pipeline, and Docker was gained.

 

Please apply online at: https://www.archer.com/careers. Must put job code SJ2026BS on resume/CV and cover letter. 

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. For this position we are offering $169,208.00 to $177,668.40 per year #LI-DNI


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