What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automation Engineer position at Archer?
Automation Engineer
Department: Battery Industrialization & Automation
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 for 60 miles at speeds of up to 150 mph while producing minimal noise.
Our sights are set high and our problems are hard, and we believe that diversity in the workplace is what makes us smarter, drives better insights, and will ultimately lift us all to success. We are dedicated to cultivating an equitable and inclusive environment that embraces our differences, and supports and celebrates all of our team members.
The ideal candidate for this position will be an individual with equipment design experience, equipment troubleshooting experience (both from a mechanical & controls perspective) as the role will involve designing tools, fixtures on the fly, fixing & troubleshooting in-production equipment, etc.
What you’ll do:
- Uses engineering tools to design/analyze hardware for product assemblies: changes, new development, unitization, and integration
- Design manufacturing equipment and fixtures in-house
- Develop specification for tooling and automation equipment
- Responsible for the completion of technical engineering tasks from definition to deployment through installation.
- Manage equipment design using functional requirements, technical specifications, as well as time and budget requirements.
- Coordinates with manufacturing and design to deliver on project scope, schedule and services
- Create Training documentation for installation
- Oversee technician/operator training on the equipment
- Processes data, writes engineering reports, and diagnoses equipment system malfunctions.
- Implement process control parameters and strategies to ensure process capability
- Contributes to reliability analysis such as risk assessments, FMEA, etc.by gathering and examining data.
- Define and execute product verification/validation testing
- Assists Manufacturing during assembly and production testing
- Participate in early prototype product builds to characterize and develop both product and process critical parameters.
- Support first unit builds and testing of the production system
- Develop MES interface with equipment and oversee implementation by integrators
- Support in-line troubleshooting of production lines
- Develop handoff packages for production/sustaining engineering teams
What you need:
- 2 year work experience and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering, Mechatronic, or a equivalent & related practical experience
- Experience commissioning and improving equipment.
- Proficiency using 2D & 3D CAD to generate manufacturing layouts, assembly models, and detailed part drawings for fabrication.
- Demonstrated experience in statistical process control and GD&T
- Excellent communicator, both in presentations and written reports.
- Able to maintain organization and focus in a highly dynamic environment.
- Prefer ability to travel 10% of the time, both domestically and internationally.
Bonus Qualifications:
- Development of electric powertrain manufacturing equipment and process
- Experience as an equipment engineer in an EV company.
- Prior internships or full-time experience in Aerospace manufacturing engineering or similar role.
- NX software experience
- Experience developing production lines from prototype to production.
- Experience with PLM, MES, and ERP software.
- Direct experience programming and troubleshooting industrial automation (PLC, robots, gantries, etc…)
Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
