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Archer · 2 days ago

Staff Applications Engineer, Tools

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$134K/yr - $168K/yr

5+ years exp

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. The role involves bridging the gap between hardware and software development by building essential tools and automation for testing and validating code against physical systems.

AerospaceAir TransportationElectric VehicleManufacturing

No H1B

Responsibilities

Develop Hardware Integration Tools: Design, build, and maintain robust Python applications to capture, parse, and analyze real-time data from hardware test setups. This includes interfacing with data streams over serial, CAN, Ethernet (UDP), and other communication protocols

Own the CI/CD Pipeline: Architect and manage our automation and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Teamcity, Jenkins) to integrate hardware testing directly into our software build, test, and deployment processes

Maintain and Improve Test Automation Frameworks: Build and support test harnesses and frameworks that allow developers to easily write and execute tests against physical hardware or emulators

Enable AI Integration: Support the deployment and integration of LLMs to existing workflows

Build for Reliability: Ensure the infrastructure and tooling you create are scalable, reliable, and easy to maintain. Document your work and champion best practices across the engineering organization

Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with hardware engineers, embedded software developers, and integration / lab teams to understand their requirements and build the tools they need to succeed

Qualification

PythonCI/CD PipelinesHardware IntegrationTest Automation FrameworksData ManipulationContainerizationSoftware Development Best PracticesBack-end DevelopmentC/C++Communication StandardsTool QualificationCollaboration

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

5+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong emphasis on tooling, automation, or DevOps

Expert proficiency in Python, including experience with relevant libraries for I/O, data manipulation (e.g., Pandas, NumPy), and system interaction

Demonstrable experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

Proven experience building tools that interface directly with hardware or real-time data streams (e.g., working with data acquisition systems, parsing custom binary protocols, interacting with serial devices)

A strong foundation in software development best practices, including version control (Git), code reviews, and testing