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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

• Design and implement flight controls for our aircraft automation system • Decompose system requirements into low level flight controls requirements • Help create and use the simulation tools needed for development and testing including Simulink control law modeling, analysis using MATLAB and Python • Participate in flight testing for system identification and verification of control law performance on multiple aircraft types • Own the flight control system from end-to-end and be responsible for product delivery to programs and customers • Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel, certifiable systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy

🎯 Requirements

• BS in Aerospace/Mechanical/Electrical Engineering • 5+ years of experience developing control systems for fixed wing aircraft • Experience decomposing systems requirements into high level requirements for both outer loop and inner loop control design • Experience working in Model Based Development and certification of flight control systems • Proficiency in MATLAB/Simulink or another model-based development toolset • Experience designing, implementing, and testing software for real-time systems • Experience with linear model development, linear analysis and frequency domain gain tuning techniques

🏖️ Benefits

• health, dental, life insurance • unlimited vacation • 401k with match