Senior AI Research Engineer

As a strong AI and ML fundamentalist who is an expert at developing cutting-edge AI solutions to complex problems, you will develop code that eventually integrates into production, including:

What You’ll Do:

• Design, implement, and evaluate novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms.
• Iterate on AI model development; starting from the data needed for training, 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 in a concise, and convincing manner.
• Stay current with the latest developments in AI/ML and identify relevant innovations.
• Assist in transitioning research prototypes into production-ready systems.

What You Need:

• M.S or PhD degree in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering with strong emphasis on AI and ML.
• Enjoys solving less-defined and complex problems
• 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.
• Has strong ability to debug and determine requirements for AI models in terms of data, training, and evaluation.
• Is up to date with research literature and recent ML techniques and methodologies.

Bonus Qualifications:

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

About The Team:

AI Products is a roughly 100-person software org inside a company of aerospace engineers, and we expect to grow substantially over the next year. You get the resources and momentum of a real org, but the products themselves are early. If you want to hear more about what we're building before you apply, you can't. Apply, and we'll tell you plenty.

Please note that this job description is intended to provide a general overview of the position and does not include an exhaustive list of responsibilities and 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. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $160,000.00 - $190,000.00 Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

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