Principal AI Research Engineer

The role

You will develop code that integrates into production and design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms. You will iterate on AI model development and collaborate with other researcher engineers to prototype and validate solutions.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms.
• Iterate on AI model development including data, architecture, input/output representations, evaluation, and deployment.
• Collaborate with other researcher engineers to prototype and validate complex solutions from academic literature.
• Conduct experiments to benchmark new techniques and evaluate model behavior.
• Develop tools and frameworks to support scalable and reproducible research and development.
• Communicate research findings to leadership.
• Stay current with the latest developments in AI/ML and identify relevant innovations.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

Required qualifications

• M.S or PhD degree in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering with strong emphasis on AI and ML.
• Familiarity with good SW practices and development, including code quality, version control, etc.
• Very strong with ML frameworks such as Pytorch, or Tensorflow
• Good understanding of Transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, multi-modal foundation models, diffusion policies, fine-tuning, model distillation, mixture of experts, and other similar topics.
• Strong ability to debug and determine requirements for AI models in terms of data, training, and evaluation.
• Up to date with research literature and recent ML techniques and methodologies.

Nice to have

• Experience with Reinforcement Learning, self-supervised training, and imitation learning
• Experience developing VLA (Vision Language Action) models for robotic manipulation and mobility
• Experience developing production AI models
• Publications at top conferences

About the company

Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform. They deliver air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems, aviation-related physical artificial intelligence solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide.