Sr. Electrical Integration Engineer

The Electrical Engineering Team at Archer is seeking a Senior Electrical Integration Engineer to lead the integration and testing of powertrain electrical systems, focusing on power electronics, battery management systems, dynamometers, and actuators.

What You’ll Do

• Drive the architecture and design of powertrain test systems, ensuring seamless integration between high-voltage bus components, including engines, batteries (with onboard BMS), DC-to-DC converters, and actuators.  
• Own the end-to-end electrical and mechanical design of test enclosures and high-voltage harness systems required for flight-representative validation.  
• Interpret complex Interface Control Documents and board level circuit schematics to independently resolve technical integration challenges while strategically leveraging Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) for final high-level alignment.  
• Lead the technical evaluation and testing of powertrain components, while managing critical supply chain and logistics functions to ensure hardware availability for the test program.  
• Integrate and commission Iron Bird like High Voltage testbed systems including battery emulators and dynamometers. You’ll help configure simulation environments, develop test system automation, debug communication systems, and establish protocols to monitor system health and validate data integrity across the powertrain.  
• Work cross-functionally with power electronics, software, and thermal teams to decompose operational profiles into power requirements and ensure compliance with aviation safety and certification standards.

 

What You Need

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Aerospace) or Physics. While advanced degrees are well represented on our team, we prioritize demonstrated impact and hands-on problem solving over credentials alone.
• Systems Thinking: A proven track record of integrating and debugging complex, safety critical electrical systems. Experience with High Voltage (HV) powertrains is ideal but we’re also interested in individuals who have taken on similar complexity in other integration domains such as aerospace avionics integration, RF systems integration, or test equipment design and build. 
• Problem Solving: You possess a deep curiosity and understanding of the fundamental physics underlying our engineering decisions. Familiarity with the principles of operations of battery and dynamometer systems, EMI mitigation, thermal management, and basic structural design in the context of load carrying test equipment are highly desired.
• End to End Technical Responsibility: Deep understanding of electrical test equipment design and build including power switching topologies and high voltage systems considerations. Ideal candidates will take end to end ownership of their hardware from design through material sourcing, build, and validation.    
• Test to Learn: Hands-on testing is at the heart of what we do. Successful candidates will understand the value in rigorous testing and bring a safety-first focus to performance validation of electric powertrains. Integrators and test engineers do it all - from turning wrenches to building harnesses and modifying mechanical components, configuring power supplies, oscilloscopes, and multi-meters.  Experience with software automation (Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB) and an understanding that rigorous data standardization is part of what makes a product safe and certifiable. 
• Troubleshooting: Strong troubleshooting and root ca