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Merlin Labs (NASDAQ: MRLN) is a publicly traded aerospace and defense company developing autonomous flight systems for aircraft. The company has proven its non-human pilot autonomy platform through hundreds of autonomous flights from global test facilities in New Zealand, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Merlin is headquartered in Boston and is expanding to accelerate development and deployment of its autonomy platform across commercial and defense aviation.
In this role, you will design, integrate, and test avionics and control components for aircraft and test labs. You will oversee and perform design and analysis tasks for system integration, including stress and model analyses. You'll provide CAD work supporting design activities with industry best-practices for geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T). You will support and participate in testing activities spanning component, system development, and system certification, including test plan creation, data analysis, and test report generation. You'll prepare and coordinate mechanical design and fabrication drawings and related documents. This position may require up to 25–50% travel, sometimes with short notice, to domestic and international locations to support aircraft and system integration and testing.
This is an on-site role based at Merlin's Boston headquarters.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electro-Mechanical, or Aerospace Engineering and 5+ years of technical work experience
- Advanced modeling experience with tools such as SolidWorks, Catia, OnShape, Fusion360, or Creo
- Proven experience with rapid design cycles: taking designs from concept through detailed design, build, and test
- Experience leading engineering activities such as mechanism design, controls design and analysis, environmental analysis (thermal, vibration, airflow), and structural analysis
- Outstanding organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
NICE TO HAVE:
- Working knowledge of qualification and regulatory requirements for commercial and military aircraft (RTCA D0-160, DO-254, MIL-STD-810)
- Hands-on capability in lab/field settings; ability to build and prove out designs (SMT soldering, drilling, hand tools, mechanical assemblies)
- Hands-on experience with electro-mechanical systems (motors, EMI/EMC design and qualification testing)
- Expertise in weight-critical, high-performance design techniques and mechanical systems interface management
- Familiarity with lab test equipment (oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes, data acquisition, bus analyzers)
