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Merlin Labs

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Merlin Labs is a company focused on developing autonomous flight capabilities through its innovative Merlin Pilot technology. They aim to deliver reduced aircrew and uncrewed flight solutions for various aircraft, including the C-130J Super Hercules, KC-135 Stratotanker, and F-16. Merlin Labs employs advanced automation systems, sensor technology, and natural language processing to enable full takeoff to touchdown flights, navigate environments, and communicate effectively with air traffic control. Their mission involves creating a non-human pilot that mimics human pilot skills, enhancing both military and civilian aviation sectors. With a strong emphasis on testing and certification, Merlin Labs is at the forefront of autonomous aviation development.

📋 Description

• Support current New Zealand CAANZ certification activities for the U.S.-based aspects and lead Merlin's civil certification strategy with the FAA and other foreign authorities. • Serve as primary technical authority and liaison with regulatory authorities for U.S. certifications. • Manage new civil certification projects, including process standardization, initial assessments, compliance strategies and plans, issue papers, risk assessments, and final compliance. • Lead and grow the Military Airworthiness and Cyber Certification teams through priority-setting, process standardization, mentoring, and technical review. • Oversee military airworthiness certification strategy for defense programs and mitigate technical, resource, and capability risks. • Oversee closure of MCRIs, Issue Papers, and airworthiness documentation. • Oversee cyber security certification strategy across civil and military programs and integrate airborne cyber security assurance with safety and development assurance processes. • Partner with process assurance and engineering discipline leads to integrate certification processes with process assurance and configuration management. • Drive continuous improvement based on audits, lessons learned, and evolving regulatory and DoD guidance. • Report program health and process improvement roadmaps to the VP of Airworthiness & Certification. • Build scalable certification, military airworthiness, and cyber security frameworks for Merlin's civil and defense programs.

🎯 Requirements

• Direct, hands-on experience achieving FAA Part 23 and/or Part 25 type certificates, amendments, or Supplemental Type Certificates. • EASA CS-23/CS-25 or other foreign validation experience. • Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field. • Minimum of 12+ years of aerospace certification experience. • Significant exposure to FAA and foreign certification processes. • 5+ years leading or managing engineering teams, including hiring, mentoring, and performance management across technical disciplines. • Ability to lead certification for complex or novel aircraft technologies. • Experience interfacing directly with regulatory authorities and managing certification projects through closure or airworthiness approval. • Strong leadership and project management capabilities in cross-functional environments. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to produce high-quality certification documentation. • Experience with designee appointment and management processes and ODA management. • Strong working knowledge of 14 CFR Parts 21, 23, 25, and 183. • Familiarity with 14 CFR Parts 43 and 145 procedures and Parts 91 and 135 operations. • Working knowledge of systems engineering, requirements decomposition, V&V planning, and configuration management. • Working knowledge of DO-178C, DO-254, and MIL-STD-882 software and hardware assurance standards. • Knowledge of FHA, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, and common-cause analysis. • Knowledge of MIL-SPECs, MIL-STDs, JSSG-2001, and MIL-HDBK-516 airworthiness standards. • Knowledge of DoD cybersecurity and information assurance frameworks, including RMF, NIST SP 800-53, and CMMC. • Knowledge of DO-326A/ED-202A and DO-356A/ED-203A airborne cybersecurity assurance standards. • Knowledge of integrating cybersecurity risk assessments with ARP4754A/ARP4761A safety processes. • Knowledge of emerging aerospace technologies such as UAVs or advanced air mobility. • Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship now or in the future. • Preferred: master's degree, ASTM F3230/F3061, autonomous or unmanned aviation systems, military operational environments, machine-learning software assurance, scaling certification functions, and AI applications for process standardization.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Dental insurance • Life insurance • Unlimited vacation • 401k with match • Work/life integration • Professional development support • Highly competitive equity grants • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees