Sr. Staff Data Engineer

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.

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.

About the Role

Archer is building the future of urban air mobility and our data platform is what makes intelligent decisions possible from manufacturing operations to flight analytics. Were looking for a Senior Staff Data Engineer who brings deep expertise in data modeling and warehouse design: someone who can architect scalable well-structured data systems and set the technical direction for how data is organized governed and consumed across the company.

This is a high-ownership low-bureaucracy role on a small team. Youll shape how data is modeled and stored work closely with engineering and operations stakeholders and have direct visibility into how your work shapes the company.

What Youll Do

• Own the design and evolution of our data warehouse and lakehouse architecture schemas layer structure modeling patterns and long-term scalability
• Lead data modeling efforts: dimensional modeling semantic layer design and entity relationship design across key business domains
• Define standards for how data is structured named documented and governed across the Medallion Architecture (bronze silver gold)
• Partner with analytics engineers and business stakeholders to translate domain requirements into robust reusable data models
• Drive decisions on storage design partitioning strategies and compute optimization for query performance and cost efficiency
• Contribute to data governance lineage cataloging access control and quality frameworks
• Build and maintain production-grade pipelines where needed with a focus on reliability and idempotency
• Participate in architecture reviews and bring Senior Staff-level judgment to data stack decisions

What Were Looking For

• 7 years of data engineering experience with demonstrated depth in data modeling and warehouse design
• Strong grasp of dimensional modeling Medallion / Lakehouse architecture and semantic layer concepts
• Advanced SQL complex joins aggregations window functions query optimization and schema design
• Experience designing and scaling data warehouses or lakehouses in cloud environments (Snowflake Databricks BigQuery or equivalent)
• Python proficiency for data transformation and pipeline work
• Familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow Prefect or equivalent)
• Experience with data governance concepts lineage cataloging access control quality frameworks

Nice to Have

• Experience with dbt or similar transformation/modeling frameworks
• Exposure to agentic or AI-assisted data infrastructure
• Experience in a fast-moving startup or aerospace/manufacturing environment

How You Work

• You take ownership if something is broken or unclear you fix or clarify it
• You think in systems: you model data to be reusable not just functional
• You communicate well with non-technical partners and translate ambiguity into concrete data designs
• Youre comfortable operating on a small high-trust team without a lot of process overhead

At Archer we aim to attract retain and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Companys business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $207400 - $259200. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge skills and experience.

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Archer is unable to provide work visa sponsorship for this position at the present time.

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit qualifications and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race color religion sex sexual orientation age national origin disability status protected veteran status gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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