Staff Backend Engineer - Real-Time Data & AI Pipelines

Archer Aviation in San Jose is seeking a Staff Software Backend Engineer to build and scale core application logic, streaming pipelines, and data layers powering our real-time AI tracking platform. You will ensure high-frequency telemetry is ingested and served to downstream apps and models. You bring 5+ years of backend and data pipeline experience, strong Java/Python/Rust skills, and familiarity with Pulsar or Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis/Valkey, Docker and cloud environments.