A remote Engineering Leadership role at Merlin Labs.
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Drive the technical direction and deliver autonomous decision making, behavior execution, and motion planning capabilities for airborne systems.
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Define the research, experiments, and development projects that support delivering mission autonomy capabilities.
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Identify gaps and define staffing needs to develop and deliver decision making and behavior capabilities.
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Ensure the decision making, behaviors, and motion planning technical plans align with short term R&D objectives, long term objectives, and the Merlin technology roadmap.
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Lead architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis, accounting for short term objectives and long term goals in decision making.
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Step in to a hands-on software development role as needed.
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Support simulation, integration, and flight test activities to validate real-world performance.
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Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
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Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related subject.
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Years of professional experience developing software for airborne autonomous systems.
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Mission management frameworks such as behavior trees, hierarchical task networks, state machines, petri nets.
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Single- and multi-vehicle autonomy, resource allocation, and decision making algorithms.
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Airborne contingency and emergency management.
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Machine learning for complex decision making and behavior generation.
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Years of experience providing tech leadership to a team of at least 4 engineers at different levels.
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Proficiency in modern software development workflows and practices, including version control, pipelines, and unit testing, and peer review.
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Experience with overall product development cycle, including design, testing, and troubleshooting at the system level as well as at the software component level.
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Proficiency writing both Python and C++.
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Familiarity with simulation software, especially aircraft simulation.
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Experience with proposal writing and technical roadmap development.
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Experience with ROS, DDS, or similar middleware for robotics/autonomy systems.
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Experience with government open architectures such as A-GRA, OMS and FACE.
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Experience developing and/or using modern avionics systems.
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Experience with hardware and software integration and debugging.
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Experience with flight testing (uncrewed or crewed aircraft).
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Awareness of aviation certification standards such as DO-178.
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Pilot license and flight experience is a plus.
Merlin Labs
Engineering Leadership
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Merlin Labs is a technology company focused on developing advanced autonomous flight systems. They are known for creating AI co-pilots that enable aircraft to operate autonomously, aiming to enhance safety and efficiency in aviation.
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