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Merlin Labs (NASDAQ: MRLN) is a publicly traded aerospace and defense company building autonomous pilot systems to deliver full-stack autonomy for aircraft from takeoff to touchdown. The Merlin Pilot autonomy system has been proven through hundreds of autonomous flights from global flight test facilities in New Zealand, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. The company is expanding to accelerate development and deployment of its autonomy platform, addressing aviation challenges including pilot shortages and flight safety.
You will be an experienced engineer with a background in autonomous systems, aviation, or robotics, motivated to build software enabling effective human-machine and machine-machine teaming. You will enhance how humans interact with complex automated systems, comfortable with leading technical projects or contributing independently to software development and experimentation. You take pride in high-quality, maintainable code and are driven to improve interactive teaming behaviors through human subject testing and integration into real airborne systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to technical direction and implementation of capabilities supporting human-machine and machine-machine teaming for autonomous airborne systems
- Design, develop, and deploy novel teaming capabilities that measurably enhance performance, safety, and resilience of human-machine teams
- Propose, design, and execute applied research and human subject experiments to evaluate human-machine teaming capabilities in realistic operations
- Contribute to simulation, integration, and flight test activities to validate autonomy software in relevant environments
- Write, test, document, and review code according to Merlin's development standards
- Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems solving aviation and autonomy challenges
The role is based on-site at Merlin HQ in Boston, MA, with 10-20% travel to support team meetings, integration events, and flight testing.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or related subject
- 5+ years of professional experience (including graduate work) developing software for airborne autonomous systems
- Deep experience in one or more of: human-machine interaction for crewed aircraft and/or UAS; single- and multi-vehicle autonomy, resource allocation, and decision-making algorithms; software development for physiological signal monitoring; algorithmic modeling for human cognitive state analysis
- Experience in modern software development workflows and practices, including version control, pipelines, unit testing, and peer review
- Experience with overall product development cycle, including design, testing, and troubleshooting at system and software component levels
- Experience with Linux and open-source development tools
- Proficiency writing code in Python
- Experience with technical writing
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to learn and contribute across different technical domains
Nice to Have:
- Proficiency with C++ and ROS
- Experience designing focused research plans and experiments to evaluate human-machine and machine-machine teaming effectiveness
- Experience with perception systems, sensor fusion, world modeling concepts, or Bayesian probabilistic methods
- Experience with proposal writing and technical roadmap development
- Familiarity with simulation software, especially aircraft simulation
- Experience with hardware and software integration and debugging
- Experience with flight testing (uncrewed or crewed aircraft)
- Pilot license and flight experience
Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
