Systems Engineer, Integration

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 world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges.

You are a very experienced systems engineer involved in systems integration, requirements management, system design, and testing in civil-certified or military safety-critical avionics and mission systems. You have a passion for new development and have a proven record of navigating the challenges in new product integration. You’ve worked in an experimental R&D flight test environment with general civil certified or commercial derivative aircraft and know how to keep safety at the forefront while still moving quickly.

You also have experience in interfacing with a wide array of engineering domains, customers, suppliers, and partners.

• Guide system development and traceability from system requirements capture, through design decision making, to final demonstration for systems being implemented on various aircraft.
• Facilitate the development of concepts of operation, system architecture (including functional and physical architectures), system requirements, measures of performance, certification planning and execution from requirements through to demonstration for Merlin product integrations.
• Work across the safety, hardware, simulation, and software teams to capture, document, and communicate requirements and interfaces
• Host design reviews of architectures for senior leadership and review artifacts as the primary technical stakeholder across all supporting functional disciplines.
• Managing systems engineering tasking and aligning disciplines to support their successful and timely completion.
• Participate in the development of systems engineering development plans and processes as needed.
• Participate in reviews of artifacts with customers, suppliers, and regulatory authorities as required.

• BS in Electrical/Aerospace/Systems Engineering or a related subject, MS preferred.
• 10+ years of experience conducting systems engineering in FAA/EASA/Military certification programs (8+ years with MS degree).
• Demonstrated ability to lead as a Systems Engineer in solving complex architectural and systems engineering-related problems across aircraft integration and software.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating design across multi-disciplined functional groups: hardware, software, electrical, mechanical, and test engineering.
• Experience with requirements management tools and processes
• Hands‑on experience in integrating avionics equipment using ARP
  4754A/B and RTCA DO-178B/C or equivalent standards for flight‑critical systems.
• Demonstrated ability to develop system‑level requirements, architecture, and interfaces, and perform requirements validation and verification.
• Demonstrated familiarity with general aviation aircraft and integration.

• Specific experience with general aviation aircraft integration, including Cessna Caravan
• Specific experience in the area of Automatic Flight Controls, Flight Management, or Display Systems.
• Specific experience in developing software requirements and performing software verification.
• Working knowledge of FAA/EASA/Military regulations and standards is a plus.
• Familiarity with Simulink, Cameo, IADS, Jama, JIRA

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, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military service or obligation or disability status, or any other characteristic protected by…