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Staff Engineer, Flight Controls Software

Archer Aviation

Location:
Brazil, São Paulo

Category:
IT - Software Development

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Job Description:

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. We are looking for an experienced Embedded Software Engineer to join the software team at Archer. The role consists in designing, developing and testing safety critical software for Archer’s fault tolerant flight controls system.

Job Responsibility:

Develop safety critical software components for Archer’s flight control system
Participate in planning, design, scheduling, prioritizing, and tracking the project
Work with system engineers to decompose item requirements into high level and low level software requirements in compliance with DO-178C
Work with a multi-disciplinary team to develop and integrate the complex hardware/software flight control system
Development of software plans, processes & guidelines
Software requirements decomposition, analysis, definition, and traceability
Software design and development, performance, risk, safety, operation and cost optimization trade studies, and lead / conduct design reviews
Software analyses, requirements-based testing, and structural coverage analysis
Contribute to the continuous improvement of our processes to increase safety and efficiency

Requirements:

5+ years of experience in a flight control software or a related field
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree
Proficiency with C/C++
Experience with MATLAB/Simulink
Fluency with widely used scripting languages like bash and Python
Experience developing software complying with safety standards like DO-178C or ISO 26262 to high criticality levels (DAL-A/B)
Understanding of communication standards and protocols (RS-422/485, CAN, ARINC-429, AFDX, Ethernet, TCP/IP, etc…)
Familiarity with debuggers and lab instruments such oscilloscopes and bus analyzers
Experience with Model Based Software development and certification (DO-331)
Excellent organizational and communication skills

Nice to have:

Experience with VHDL and/or Verilog development
Familiarity with modeling tools like UML or SysML
Knowledge of Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) and multi-threading
Experience in Linux
Experience with DO-254
Experience with tools qualification (DO-330)

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Job Posted:
December 06, 2025

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