Mission Autonomy- Interactive Teaming Lead
Mission Autonomy- Interactive Teaming Lead
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15-08-2025
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About Merlin:
Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human 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 engineer with a background in autonomous systems aviation and robotics who wants to lead Merlins direction when it comes to human-machine and machine-machine teaming. You understand both the commercial and military aviation domains and enjoy pushing the boundaries on crewed and uncrewed technology to make aviation safer and to be a force multiplier for our military. You have developed and deployed autonomy for airborne systems have a deep understanding of the interfaces through which humans and machines work together and understand how to build and test scalable teams of autonomous systems. You want to focus more on leading and driving technical direction but can get your hands dirty with day-to-day software development and experimentation when its needed.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the technical direction and deliver capabilities supporting human-machine and machine-machine teaming for autonomous airborne systems.
- Define the research experiments and development projects that support delivering interactive teaming capabilities.
- Identify gaps and define staffing needs to develop and deliver interactive teaming capabilities.
- Ensure the interactive teaming plans align with short term R&D objectives long term objectives and the Merlin technology roadmap.
- Lead architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis accounting for short term objectives and long term goals in decision making.
- Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
Requirements:
- Drive the technical direction and deliver capabilities supporting human-machine and machine-machine teaming for autonomous airborne systems.
- Define the research experiments and development projects that support delivering interactive teaming capabilities.
- Identify gaps and define staffing needs to develop and deliver interactive teaming capabilities.
- Ensure the interactive teaming plans align with short term R&D objectives long term objectives and the Merlin technology roadmap.
- Lead architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis accounting for short term objectives and long term goals in decision making.
- Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
Desired:
- Experience designing focused research plans and experiments to evaluate human-machine and machine-machine teaming effectiveness.
- Experience developing and/or using modern avionics systems.
- Experience with hardware and software integration and debugging.
- Experience with flight testing (uncrewed or crewed aircraft).
- Awareness of aviation certification standards such as DO-178.
- Pilot license and flight experience is a plus.
Logistics:
- Travel 10-20% of the time to support team meetings integration events and flight testing
This position is based on-site at Merlin HQ in Boston MA. We offer flexible hybrid in office schedules.
We understand that relocating for a new role is a significant decision and were here to support you every step of the way. Thats why we offer comprehensive relocation assistance to help make your transition as seamless as possible. From covering moving expenses to providing guidance on finding housing we aim to ensure your relocation experience is stress-free.
Additionally once youre here youll enjoy a variety of on-site perks designed to make your workday enjoyable and convenient. These include catered lunches featuring a rotating menu of delicious options an assortment of snacks to keep you fueled throughout the day and a selection of beverages including coffee tea and other drinks to keep you refreshed.
Our goal is to create an environment where you can thrive both professionally and personally
Merlin Labs offers an innovative entrepreneurial and team-focused startup environment. We also offer a top-notch 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 pre-employment 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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