Senior Staff Engineer

Archer is hiring an instrumentation engineer to drive mission critical work on our propeller team. This is a high-impact and cross-functional role that will work closely with mechanical designers and analysts to optimize our propeller performance.

What you’ll do:

• Support instrumentation development for a variety of propeller configurations
• Ensure our instrumentation package will gather flight test data accurately
• Create plan for sensor selection, including DAQ and power sources
• Work cross-functionally to ensure key flight data is synchronized with the rest of the engineering org
• Ensure safety is at the core of our instrumentation package
• Collaborate with certification engineers

What you need:

• 5+ years industry experience
• MS / PhD in Aerospace Engineering or related fields
• Experience building instrumentation packages for fixed-wing vehicles and/or rotorcraft
• Proven expertise in helicopter rotor aeromechanics field (including aerodynamics, dynamics, loads, stability, performance)
• Demonstrated organizational skills to bring together small multidisciplinary teams on high impact, but time limited projects.
• Strong technical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in a fast-paced design environment.

Bonus Qualifications:

• Familiar with FAA aircraft and/or rotorcraft loads and dynamics regulations (FAR Part 23, 27, 33, 35) and associated advisory materials.
• Experience with instrumentation of articulated rotors or propellers (from test objective definition to instrumentation selection and design, from test execution to data processing and interpretation)
• Experience with measurements and data analysis techniques
• Pilot’s license

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