Avionics Integration Engineer

Merlin (NASDAQ: MRLN) is a publicly traded aerospace and defense company building a non-human pilot to deliver full-stack autonomy for any aircraft from takeoff to touchdown. The Merlin Pilot autonomy system powers a growing range of aircraft and mission profiles and has been proven through hundreds of autonomous flights from Merlin's global flight test facilities, including Kerikeri, New Zealand; Smithfield, Rhode Island; and soon, Bedford, Massachusetts. Headquartered in Boston, Merlin is expanding its organization to accelerate the development and deployment of its autonomy platform, helping customers solve some of aviation's most pressing challenges, from pilot shortages to improving flight safety. Backed by some of the world's leading investors prior to its public listing, Merlin continues to advance the certification and commercialization of autonomous flight across commercial and defense aviation.
About You: Are you a creative and experienced electrical engineer who is passionate about developing systems at the forefront of technology? Do you believe you can build better aircraft systems using agile and robust development methods? Would you like to own a significant percentage of key aspects for a new product? If so, you might be a good fit for the team in an Avionics Integration Engineer role here at Merlin Labs.

Responsibilities:

• Define and mature electrical and electronic aspects of the architecture for our aircraft autonomy system, including power distribution, communications, computer, electro-mechanical, control systems, and user interfaces and controls.
• Integrate and verify Commercial/Modified-Off-the-Shelf (COTS/MOTS) electronic subsystems for aircraft and test lab installation.
• Provide guidance to lab and aircraft installation technicians.
• Prepare and release electrical design and fabrication drawings, test plans and reports, and associated aircraft installation and certification documents.
• This position may require up to 50% travel, sometimes with short notice, to both domestic and international locations to support aircraft and system integration.

Qualifications:

• BS in Electronics, Electrical, Aerospace, or Mechanical Engineering.
• 5+ years of relevant systems level electrical systems and integration design experience for the aviation and aerospace industries.
• Experience integrating and debugging systems containing COTS/MOTS modules, custom circuits, software, sensors, and human / machine / graphical user interfaces.
• Working knowledge of integrating various components using standard interface protocols such as ARINC 429, RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485.
• Familiarity with lab test equipment, including oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes, data acquisition, and bus analyzers.
• Experience with creating and interpreting system schematics, wiring diagrams, and subsystem block diagrams.
• Experience with wire harness design and connector component selection and sourcing.
• Outstanding organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• Specific experience with aircraft avionics, communications, and power distribution and management systems.
• Working knowledge and understanding of the qualification and regulatory requirements for commercial and military aircraft. Specifically: RTCA DO-160, DO-178, DO-254, and MIL-STD-810.
• Hands-on capability in lab, field, and aircraft settings and able to function comfortably as an electromechanical technician to build and prove out designs. (SMT soldering, drilling, wiring, crimping, use of hand tools, design/build of cable assemblies.)
• Hands-on experience with electro-mechanical systems such as motors and associated EMI/EMC design and qualification testing.
• Aviation/Aerospace wire harness design experience.
• Experience with design tools such as SolidWorks, Altium, or KiCAD.