Jobs at Merlin Labs

Lead strategic finance functions including revenue forecasting, quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay process design, controls and workflows, operating expense forecasting and accruals, financial systems implementation support, monthly/quarterly cadence and variance analysis, and ultimately P&L ownership for an assigned product line.

Lead accounting, financial reporting, and compliance for a public government contractor. Oversee SEC reporting, SOX, FAR/DFARS/CAS compliance, government audits, monthly close, revenue recognition, equity accounting, payroll, and a team of accountants while partnering cross-functionally and supporting audits, M&A, and strategic initiatives.

As a Systems Engineer, you will lead system architecture, requirements development, and verification for safety-critical avionics systems, collaborating across teams.

Lead and manage government and defense programs focusing on autonomy integration, ensuring strategy execution across various teams, and maintaining customer relationships.

Lead business development to capture U.S. government Mobility and SOF opportunities. Build senior government relationships, drive pursuit strategy, craft proposals, set pricing targets, report KPIs, and coordinate internally to convert pipeline. Requires significant travel and engagement with defense and aviation stakeholders.

Lead strategic FP&A for Programs and Engineering: build financial models, design program cost accounting, establish reporting cadence, implement planning tools, deliver analytics, and assume long-term P&L ownership for a product line.

Coordinate and schedule interviews across time zones, manage interview logistics and ATS records, communicate with candidates, support recruiters and hiring managers, prepare interview materials, assist with offer-stage coordination, track recruiting metrics, and provide general administrative support during a contract engagement.

Lead the data strategy and own end-to-end data pipelines for AI training, simulation, and deployment in safety-critical autonomous systems. Build data flywheels, integrate with large-scale GPU/TPU training infrastructure, ensure simulator fidelity, partner with safety and certification teams, mentor engineers, and track KPIs for pipeline health and model readiness.

Lead the design, build, and operation of simulation environments for flight controls development. Manage integration processes and a team of engineers, ensuring stability and compliance across multiple aircraft platforms.

The Staff Simulation Platform Engineer will design and build simulation infrastructure, enhance scenario-based validation for autonomy systems, and modernize toolchains, while providing technical leadership to the team.

Lead end-to-end airframe integration programs for Merlin Pilot, managing certification, hardware/subcontractor integration, schedules, budgets, flight test, and customer/partner engagements. Scale program rhythms and mentor TPMs to ensure on-time, compliant deployments across multiple platforms.

Lead systems engineering activities, from requirements capture to demonstration for avionics systems, ensuring safety and timely completion of projects.

As General Manager, you will drive revenue growth in the maritime sector by managing a $50M+ P&L, leading capture efforts, and engaging with maritime agencies and customers.

Lead the technical direction for mission autonomy, developing decision-making capabilities for airborne systems, while overseeing teams and driving R&D projects.

Lead strategy and lifecycle for Merlin's engineering test data platforms. Drive adoption, governance, vendor management, integration, and enterprise standards for telemetry, instrumentation, and test data. Partner with engineering teams to enable analytics, AI/ML, automated pipelines, and digital engineering to improve test operations and decision making.

Design and integrate avionics for aircraft, oversee system integration tasks, support testing activities, and prepare mechanical design documentation.

Lead the development of autonomy and robotics software for aviation. Design, integrate, and optimize systems for uncrewed vehicles, focusing on reducing pilot workload and enhancing decision-making.

Lead technical strategy and execution for Merlin's AI Core platform across perception, sensor fusion, planning, and control. Build and manage a multidisciplinary engineering organization, own architecture from data pipelines to real-time onboard inference, enforce aviation-grade safety and quality, partner with certification and systems teams, recruit senior talent, and translate research into product opportunities.

Lead SEC periodic reporting and EDGAR filings, develop and test SOX internal controls, coordinate audits, research complex technical accounting (ASC 606/718/805), support investor relations and Audit Committee, and partner cross-functionally on disclosures and special transactions.

Lead end-to-end systems integration for the air vehicle: define integration architecture, ICDs, and system-level verification; plan and execute subsystem-to-aircraft testing including HIL and flight validation; manage interface risk across disciplines; lead and hire systems integration team; drive root cause analysis and provide certification evidence.