Staff AI Systems Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Infrastructure & Orchestration: Deploy, scale, and manage resilient infrastructure services tailored for distributed AI model training and low-latency inference.
• Maturity & MLOps: Utilize and maintain end-to-end tooling—including MLflow for experiment tracking and model registry—to streamline and optimize the AI development lifecycle.
• Compute & Inference Optimization: Leverage specialized frameworks to maximize hardware utilization, managing multi-cloud compute scheduling alongside advanced LLM serving engines.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with AI researchers and Software Engineers to productionize cutting-edge models, establish monitoring systems, and debug complex performance bottlenecks at the hardware-software interface.

What You Need

• Education: BS/MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with a dedicated focus on AI/ML systems, high-performance computing (HPC), or ML infrastructure.
• Multi-Cloud & Compute Management: Familiarity with hyper-scaler infrastructure (AWS) alongside specialized AI-centric bare-metal and GPU clouds (Nebius AI Cloud).
• Cloud-Native Orchestration & Abstraction: Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker) and production-grade orchestration (Kubernetes), paired with cloud-agnostic cluster abstractors like SkyPilot to manage multi-region GPU availability.
• LLM Serving Optimization: Deep architectural understanding of large language models and the system infrastructure required to serve them at scale using frameworks like vLLM and SGLang.
• Data Engineering for AI: Experience building high-throughput data pipelines to support large-scale training, including proficiency in SQL, NoSQL, and columnar storage formats optimized for ML (e.g., Parquet).

Bonus Qualifications

• Familiarity with audio processing, speech-to-text frameworks, or Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) pipelines.
• Prior experience or a deep technical interest in aerospace, aviation, or autonomous systems (e.g., safety-critical software, edge-AI deployments).

Pay

Base pay between $172,800 - $216,000. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

About the Role

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.

Requirements

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.

Qualifications

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 Company’s business strategy.

Benefits

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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