Senior AI Research Engineer - (SJ2026NZ)

The role

This person will design, implement, and evaluate machine learning and deep learning algorithms focused on autonomy, trajectory prediction, and perception. They will iterate on predictive and decision-making models and transition research prototypes into production-ready systems.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms.
• Iterate on predictive and decision-making model development.
• Collaborate with other research engineers to prototype and validate complex solutions.
• Conduct experiments to benchmark new techniques and evaluate model behavior.
• Develop tools and frameworks to support scalable and reproducible research.
• Communicate research findings to leadership.
• Stay current with developments in Autonomy and Generative AI.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

Required qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Computational Sciences, Machine Learning, Robotics or Informatics.
• Highly skilled with AI and ML frameworks, such as Pytorch or Tensorflow.
• Skills with debugging and determining requirements for AI models in terms of data, training and evaluation.
• Understanding of Transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, multi-modal foundation models, diffusion policies, fine-tuning, model distillation, and mixture of experts.

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.