Senior Software Engineer Avionics
Senior Software Engineer Avionics
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07-04-2025
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Job Description
About Merlin:
Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a nonhuman pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the worlds leading investors Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviations biggest challenges.
About You:
You are an experienced avionics software engineer looking for an opportunity to share your expertise with a fastgrowing team by providing technical direction and mentorship. In return you seek an innovative startup that values its employees and invests in their professional development. As a senior engineer your primary focus is spearheading software design and development resolving critical design decisions and demonstrating the highest levels of competence in safetycritical software engineering practices for the team. Technically you bring proven expertise in C and C having used one or both languages to develop flight software for multiple vehicles and/or other missioncritical systems.
The Role:
- Contribute to the design and development of the autonomous flight software contributing to both lowerlevel embedded software and higherlevel autonomy function areas.
- Oversee design and development of the software architecture for our safety critical systems.
- Provide leadership by example define and implement process write and test code generate documentation and ensure our product ships and performs to the highest quality.
- Take part in maintaining the configuration and quality of the software by driving development to the established standards and procedures.
- Communicate and collaborate crossfunctionally to improve software by providing recommendations to update system requirements architecture or hardware to resolve issues.
- Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel certifiable systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
- Provide mentorship to grow a strong and collaborative avionics software team.
Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science Aerospace Engineering or a related subject.
- 5 years of experience in embedded software development with demonstrable knowledge of C/C.
- Experience designing and implementing software for realtime operating systems (RTOS) with strong knowledge of lowlevel topics such as device driver development memory management and performance estimation.
- Experience developing certified software for flight control systems vehicle management systems or other safetycritical avionics systems.
Nice To Have:
- Demonstrable experience developing software in accordance with RTCA DO178C or MILHDBK516C.
- Experience in verification of embedded C/Cdeveloped software.
Merlin Labs offers an innovative entrepreneurial and teamfocused startup environment. We also offer a topnotch benefits package (health dental life unlimited vacation and 401k with match) and work/life integration. Being part of the Merlin team allows you to become part of a small team that supports professional development while working together to achieve our mission.
Merlin Labs is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex gender gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability
status. All job offers are contingent upon the candidate passing background and reference checks.
At this time we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or consider candidates who require visa transfers. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application interviewing completing any preemployment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please direct your inquiries to
Merlin Labs does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from candidates.
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Senior IC
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