Senior Software Engineer, Merlin Labs
Flight Autonomy, Model Based
Aviation tech for fully autonomous flight
Open for applications
Aviation tech for fully autonomous flight
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To build the AI-powered operating system of record that allows aircraft, large and small, to fly autonomously.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 5+ years of experience developing embedded or safety-critical software
- Extensive experience with Simulink, Stateflow and Embedded Coder for safety critical software development
- Experience with Simulink Check, Simulink Code Inspector, Simulink Test and Polyspace Bug Finder
- Strong experience with requirements management, including authoring high-quality software requirements, maintaining traceability, and using tools such as DOORS, Jama, or Polarion
- Working knowledge of DO-178C, including hands-on experience with DO-331
- Experience with CI/CD environments and automated model/code quality checks
- Experience developing embedded flight software using C/C++ and integrating auto-generated code with manual code
- Experience performing HIL testing, automated test execution, troubleshooting integration issues and analysis of flight test data
- Experience with MATLAB scripting, tool automation, and test automation
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, test, and certify flight-critical autonomy algorithms for next-generation aerospace systems
- In this role, you will develop model-based flight software using MathWorks tools and support the full lifecycle of DO-178C compliant development
- Design and develop flight-critical software using Simulink, Stateflow, and related MathWorks tools for model-based design
- Define software architecture, modeling standards, and development workflows aligned with DO-178C and DO-331
- Create, maintain and review software requirements, models and auto-generated code
- Ensure robustness and traceability through requirements-based design, verification, and certification artifact production
- Collaborate with engineers from cross functional groups such as systems, safety, hardware, flight controls and test to ensure product and program level needs are met
- Support integration into CI pipelines, including model checks, code generation, static analysis, and automated verification
- Contribute to planning and execution of SOI audits and certification reviews
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software requirements, architecture and design decisions
- Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), processor-in-the-loop (PIL), and flight testing activities
Our take
Companies like Xwing and Reliable Robotics are retrofitting aircrafts for full autonomy, however, Merlin Labs is taking a different route. Rather than building its own aircradt, it's developing the Merlin Pilot - an autonomous flight system designed to integrate into existing fleets. And this systems-first approach is gaining rel traction across commercial and defense sectors.
Instead of developing an autonomous vehicle, the company has designed configurable software that can be fitted into any plane to turn it into one. It’s already received certification from the FAA in the US, and the CAA in New Zealand; now, the goal is to get it fitted into large commercial aircraft to help reduce crew sizes. Ultimately, Merlin Labs is hoping its software will be used to fly smaller aircraft completely autonomously.
Providing a way for non-autonomous aircraft to be repurposed is a neat and attractive solution: costly aircraft needn’t be scrapped, human co-pilots don’t require retraining, and there’s a wealth of existing commercial and private applications for the software. So it’s an astute way of manoeuvring ahead of well-funded competition. Investors are paying attention, as are top-tier clients: Merlin has partnered with the likes of Ameriflight, the U.S. Air Force, and Dynamic Aviation, and pulled in millions of dollars of funding. It will need it: the competition is fierce.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2023
$1m
GRANT
Jul 2022
$105m
SERIES B
Total funding: $170.8m
Company HQ
Leather District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Matt George
(CEO)Served in an OPC role at The White House, then on the Senior Advisory Board at Boston 2024. Went on to found and lead tech company Bridj.
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