Develop and maintain software that connects aircraft avionics, simulation models, test hardware, and engineering tools, enabling hardware-in-the-loop testing and helping teams diagnose integration issues before flight.
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21 open roles at Merlinlabs
Own strategic sourcing across hardware, software, and services, leading category plans, competitive tenders, supplier negotiations, and risk management in a regulated aerospace and defense environment.
Own real-time software and telemetry integration for aircraft avionics, simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop test environments, enabling engineers to validate systems, capture flight-test data, and reproduce integration issues.
Leads the systems engineering function for autonomous aviation products, setting architecture, requirements, safety, and verification strategy while building the team and guiding programs toward certification.
Develop software and applied research for human-machine and machine-machine teaming in autonomous airborne systems, improving team performance, safety, and resilience through experimentation, simulation, integration, and flight testing.
Build and own civil aviation cybersecurity certification processes, risk assessments, compliance evidence, and FAA-facing deliverables, embedding airworthiness security across aircraft programs and coordinating with engineering teams.
Own learned predictive models of aircraft, environments, and traffic, building rollout tools that help planners compare future outcomes while rigorously measuring uncertainty and model validity.
Own the data pipelines and tooling that transform flight, simulation, and operational outputs into trustworthy, traceable ML training datasets, while feeding deployed-system signals back into future training cycles.
Develop and integrate aircraft dynamics models for a virtual test environment, supporting simulation workflows, flight-test data analysis, autonomy development, system integration, and validation across multiple aircraft platforms.
Own the end-to-end design, development, testing, and delivery of flight-control systems for autonomous aircraft, translating system requirements into control laws and verifying performance through simulation and flight tests.
Leads accounting operations for a publicly traded government contractor, overseeing SEC reporting, government contract accounting, close processes, internal controls, equity administration, payroll, and an accounting team.
Build the financial infrastructure linking customer commitments to recognized revenue and vendor activity to recorded expenses, then take long-term P&L ownership of an assigned product line.
Lead systems engineering for autonomous flight-control products, guiding a small team while owning architecture, requirements, interfaces, and system-level verification and validation across safety-critical development.
Own systems engineering for flight autonomy, developing subsystem architectures, requirements, and test strategies while coordinating verification and validation across safety, hardware, and software teams.
Lead systems engineering for aircraft integrations, guiding requirements, architecture, certification planning, and verification from concept through demonstration across multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders.
Leads data infrastructure and release strategy for AI training, simulation, and deployment in safety-critical autonomous systems, building reliable data flywheels and guiding a team of data and infrastructure engineers.
Leads the AI Core software strategy and team, owning architecture and delivery of flight-critical autonomy systems from data and model training through real-time onboard inference, integration, and certification.
The Director, Market Strategy evaluates growth opportunities across defense and commercial aviation, turning complex market research into clear strategic options and recommendations for leadership.
Own the maritime business P&L and lead growth from customer needs to revenue-generating programs, overseeing capture, customer relationships, and execution across maritime ISR and surveillance markets.
Leads the technical direction and delivery of autonomy decision-making, behavior execution, and motion-planning capabilities for airborne systems while managing engineers and validating performance through simulation and flight tests.
Develop and integrate software across aircraft autonomy systems, from embedded components to perception, planning, and decision-making, and validate capabilities through simulation, system integration, and flight testing.
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