Test Data Engineer
Job Location:
Boston, MA - USA
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Job Summary
About you:
You will be the primary interface between our internal data customers and various vendors(e.g. Marpin Labs Epsilon3) ensuring the external products can be used by Merlin engineers by any combination of training Merlin employees or helping to develop external services to suit company needs. This mission-critical role combines engineering process leadership systems-engineering technical domain experience understanding test data workflows and configuration control and change management.
Responsibilities:
Own Merlins Test Data Platform Strategy
- Own the strategy roadmap and lifecycle for Merlins engineering test data platforms.
- Drive adoption of scalable data platforms supporting laboratory simulation ground test and flight test activities.
- Establish platform standards governance and best practices across Engineering.
- Manage strategic vendor relationships roadmap alignment and platform performance.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and lead continuous platform improvement and deployment.
- Ensure vendor solutions meet Merlins technical operational and long-term business requirements.
Drive Engineering Data Strategy
- Define the long-term vision for engineering test data management across Merlin.
- Standardize data workflows governance and engineering processes across programs.
- Lead the transition from legacy workflows to modern digital engineering platforms.
- Advise executive leadership on investments capabilities and future data strategy.
- Identify opportunities to improve engineering efficiency through automation and data-driven decision making.
Partner Across Engineering
- Serve as the primary partner to Systems Engineering Flight Test Instrumentation Software and Program Management teams.
- Gather and prioritize platform requirements while balancing competing stakeholder needs.
- Drive integration between engineering platforms and enterprise systems.
- Ensure platform security availability access controls and operational excellence.
Establish Enterprise Data Standards
- Define enterprise standards for telemetry instrumentation metadata data quality retention permissions and knowledge management.
- Ensure traceability consistency and data integrity across all engineering and test programs.
- Enable cross-program data reuse and scalable collaboration.
Advance Analytics & Digital Engineering
- Champion analytics reporting AI/ML and digital engineering capabilities across the organization.
- Develop common metrics dashboards and automated data processing pipelines.
- Enable reusable analysis workflows that accelerate engineering insight and decision making.
Qualifications:
Bachelor degree in Engineering Computer Science Data Science Information Systems or related technical discipline. Advanced degree preferred.
5 years of experience in aerospace aviation defense transportation or other complex engineering environments.
Experience with engineering systems test operations telemetry systems data platforms or digital engineering initiatives.
Experience with FTI management telemetry systems aero integration and test operations.
Experience managing enterprise software implementations and deployments.
Experience working across multiple technical disciplines and organizational levels.
Technical Knowledge
Data acquisition systems typical of aircraft
Telemetry systems
Instrumentation systems
Engineering data management
Systems engineering
Configuration management
Data analytics platforms
Cloud-based engineering systems
Digital engineering frameworks
Nice to Haves:
- Authoritative voice on test engineering information systems and data management.
- Understand both the technical details of test operations and information systems as well as the organizational challenges of enterprise transformation.
- Can discuss avionics and telemetry architecture with engineers data platform strategy with executives and operational / security details with IT administrators.
- Vision to establish (CloudTS and ) test data platforms as strategic enterprise capability rather than a low-priority software application maintenance side-project.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
