Flight Sciences Tools and HPC Engineer

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.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain internal software libraries and applications as well as computing infrastructure to enable engineers to solve problems faster and more efficiently. Promote the use of shared computational infrastructure, tools, and practices across engineering teams within the Flight Sciences department; Develop processes and software tools to improve the reproducibility and traceability of computations. Drive the implementation of such tools; Promote a culture of software excellence across the engineering organization; Understand the needs of various engineering teams to efficiently utilize High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources, and make informed decisions on infrastructure solutions to ensure optimal resource utilization and cost savings; Maintain and administer on-premises HPC resources; Advocate for engineering and computing needs with the company-wide IT department

Requirements

Master's or Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Engineering, or a related field; 5+ years of experience as a user and developer of scientific/engineering software for flight sciences or similar disciplines (such as aerodynamics, acoustics, control, loads, thermal analysis, mass properties, vehicle simulation, etc.) in a fast-moving environment; Demonstrated experience in developing computing software and infrastructure, with proficiency in the scientific Python ecosystem (NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow/PyTorch, VTK); Demonstrated experience in standard best practices in software development, including version control, CI/CD, software testing, environment management; Demonstrated experience with the design and administration of HPC systems, either on-premise or cloud (AWS preferred). Knowledge of Linux administration, high speed network interconnects, parallel file systems, and MPI required; Experience with HPC management software (Slurm/PBS/Torque, OpenHPC/Bright, Warewulf/XCat, Spack/EasyBuild, Lmod); Good understanding of enterprise IT and common network security practices; Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a team environment

Nice to have

Experience as an engineer in one or more of the following areas of aircraft design - aerodynamics, conceptual design, rotor/propeller design, vehicle simulation, loads and dynamics, structural design, stress analysis, GNC; Contributions to open source scientific software projects; Experience with MATLAB and Simulink; Proficiency in one or more compiled languages (e.g. C/C++, Fortran, Rust); Familiarity with databases (SQL, NoSQL, time-series) and database application design (ORM/ODM); Experience with software packaging (Pip, Conda, Spack) and containerization technologies (Docker/Singularity/Shifter) for scientific software; Familiarity with software configuration management tools (Chef/Puppet/Ansible); Familiarity with common CI/CD tools and practices (TeamCity/Jenkins, Artifactory, Docker, etc.); Experience with analysis tools and workflows for aircraft/rotorcraft design (aerodynamics, CFD, GNC, loads, structural analysis, CAD, mass properties, etc.)