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.

Archer is best known for Midnight our electric aircraft. This role isnt on that program. The AI Products Org is building software for the general aviation industry. As a Staff Data Engineer on the AI Platform team you will design build and operate the data infrastructure that powers large-scale model training and inference. You will own the pipelines storage systems and data quality mechanisms that sit upstream of our ML platform ensuring models train on clean high-throughput well-governed data.

What Youll Do:

• Design and maintain high-throughput fault-tolerant ingestion and transformation pipelines that feed training workloads at scale with a focus on latency throughput and correctness.
• Build and operate the data lakehouse defining table formats (Iceberg Paimon Parquet) partitioning strategies and compaction policies optimized for ML consumption patterns.
• Instrument pipelines with data quality checks lineage tracking and anomaly detection so that model failures trace back to data problems quickly.
• Partner with ML engineers to define feature stores dataset versioning and experiment-to-production data contracts; integrate with tools like MLflow for dataset and artifact tracking.
• Work closely with AI researchers platform engineers and software engineers to understand data access patterns optimize query performance and unblock training runs.

If you want to hear more about what were building before you apply you cant. Apply and well tell you plenty.

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 $17500.00 - $215000.00 . Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge skills and experience.