Senior Human-Machine Teaming Engineer
Merlin Labs14 hours ago
Boston, MA, USASenior
Base Salary
$165k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the technical direction and implementation of human-machine and machine-machine teaming capabilities for autonomous airborne systems.
- Design, develop, and deploy teaming capabilities that improve the performance, safety, and resilience of human-machine teams.
- Propose, design, and conduct applied research and human-subject experiments in realistic operational settings.
- Support simulation, system integration, and flight-test activities for autonomy software.
- Write, test, document, and review code according to development standards.
- Collaborate across the organization on systems addressing aviation and autonomy challenges.
Requirements
- Bachelor-level degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related subject.
- 5+ years of professional experience, including graduate work, developing software for airborne autonomous systems.
- Deep experience in human-machine interaction, autonomy and decision-making algorithms, physiological signal monitoring, or human cognitive-state analysis.
- Experience with modern software development workflows, version control, pipelines, unit testing, peer review, and system- and component-level troubleshooting.
- Experience with Linux and open-source development tools.
- Proficiency writing Python code.
- Experience with technical writing and strong problem-solving skills.
- Preferred experience with C++, ROS, human-machine teaming experiments, perception, sensor fusion, world modeling, Bayesian methods, simulation, hardware/software integration, debugging, or flight testing.
- A pilot license and flight experience are a plus.
Benefits
- On-site work at Merlin headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Willingness to travel 10–20% of the time for meetings, integration events, and flight testing is required.
- Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages are provided on site.
- Health, dental, life insurance, flexible paid time off, and a 401(k) with match are offered.
- Professional development support in an innovative, entrepreneurial, team-focused environment.
About Merlin Labs
Merlin Labs builds an aircraft-agnostic autonomy system—Merlin Pilot—that acts as a non-human pilot from takeoff to touchdown for civil and defense operators. The company sells AI-powered flight software and integration services, validated through hundreds of autonomous test flights across multiple aircraft. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Boston, it is listed on NASDAQ (MRLN) and has secured $100M+ in awarded contracts from military customers.