Merlin Labs

Supply Chain

• Lead market surveys and supplier landscape assessments for key commodities and critical components
• Identify, evaluate, and qualify new suppliers to support cost, capacity, technology, and risk objectives
• Maintain deep understanding of supplier markets, including pricing drivers, lead times, geopolitical risks, and capacity constraints
• Proactively identify supply chain risks across quality, delivery, cost, single-source exposure, and geopolitical factors
• Develop and implement mitigation strategies, including dual sourcing, inventory strategies, and contractual protections
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure continuity of supply for critical programs and timelines
• Establish and maintain supplier quality standards, metrics, and review cadences
• Monitor supplier quality performance including schedule and cost, including corrective action management and continuous improvement initiatives
• Actively manage supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, and responsiveness, holding suppliers accountable to commitments
• Translate engineering requirements, specifications, and technical needs into clear supplier surveys, RFQs, and sourcing criteria
• Partner closely with Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing to ensure suppliers can meet technical, regulatory, and production requirements
• Support make-buy decisions and supplier selection through technical and commercial evaluation
• Own purchase order strategy, including lot sizing, lead-time management, and alignment to production schedules
• Ensure accurate, timely execution of purchase orders and supplier commitments
• Drive improvements in planning accuracy, on-time delivery, and inventory health
• Serve as a key partner to Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Finance, and Program Management
• Provide clear communication and visibility into supplier status, risks, and mitigation plans
• Build scalable supply chain processes and tools to support company growth

Strategic Supply Chain Director

Director

• End-to-end compute architecture spanning cloud ML training, simulation clusters, data pipelines, and edge/onboard systems
• Infrastructure that supports large-scale distributed training, high-fidelity simulation (SIL/HIL), and autonomy validation workflows
• GPU/accelerator orchestration, workload scheduling, and performance optimization for compute-intensive autonomy systems
• Design decisions that balance determinism, latency, safety, scalability, and cost
• Platform reliability standards for systems that ultimately support flight-critical software
• Long-term roadmap for scaling compute infrastructure as fleet size, simulation fidelity, and ML workloads grow
• Technical mentorship and bar-raising across platform and infrastructure engineering

Director, Compute Platform

Engineer

• Design, build, and integrate onboard and off-board airborne perception capabilities to enable autonomous flight and decision making.
• Work closely with the R&D software engineering manager to understand team objectives, short term milestones, long term milestones, and technology roadmap.
• Support architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis for perception subsystems.
• Drive sensor, integration, and algorithm approaches for perception subsystems.
• Establish and maintain infrastructure and processes to support development, testing, and evaluation of traditional and machine learning based algorithms.
• Collaborate closely with the rest of the R&D software team throughout the research, design, implement, and test cycle.
• Write, test, document and review code according to Merlin’s development standards as needed.
• Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.

Perception Engineer

Solutions Engineer

• Ownership, governance and maintenance of work management platforms and integrated tools, establishing and maintaining standards while maintaining a user-first mindset in responding to requests for automations and integration.
• Design, implement, and maintain advanced automations (e.g., ScriptRunner, native Jira automation) to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency
• Support Information Technology team in providing support as a SME in a service desk oriented environment, playing an active role in defending against configuration sprawl and technical debt
• Establish and enforce governance and change management processes, including clear ownership, approval paths, and documentation for platform changes
• Assist with the creation and maintenance of internal documentation to enable consistent usage and reduce ad hoc requests.
• Designing and owning contract lifecycle management tools and the integrations therein.
• Partner closely with engineering, legal, and business operations to ensure a variety of SaaS work platforms support execution, visibility, and trusted reporting.

Machine Learning Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable infrastructure for machine learning, data management and software applications.
• Develop, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment and testing of ML models.
• Monitor and manage the performance, availability, and security of ML models and applications in production.
• Implement and manage containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) to ensure efficient resource utilization.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Manage and maintain ML team’s database.
• Ensure best practices for version control, testing, and documentation are followed.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies in DevOps and MLOps.

Machine Learning Operations Engineer

• Collaborate with domain leads to develop and deploy novel teaming capabilities that measurably enhance the performance, safety, and resilience of human-machine teams.
• Support applied research and human subject experiments to evaluate human-machine teaming capabilities in realistic operations.
• Contribute to simulation, integration, and flight test activities to validate autonomy software in relevant environments.
• Write, test, document and review code according to Merlin’s development standards.
• Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.

Human-Machine Teaming Engineer

• Contribute to the technical direction and implementation of capabilities supporting human-machine and machine-machine teaming for autonomous airborne systems.
• Design, develop, and deploy novel teaming capabilities that measurably enhance the performance, safety, and resilience of human-machine teams.
• Propose, design, and execute applied research and human subject experiments to evaluate human-machine teaming capabilities in realistic operations.
• Contribute to simulation, integration, and flight test activities to validate autonomy software in relevant environments.
• Write, test, document and review code according to Merlin’s development standards.
• Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.

Senior Human-Machine Teaming Engineer

Paralegal

• Support CLO with Board of Directors and committee activities, including meeting calendars, logistics, materials, resolutions, minutes, and follow-ups
• Assist with corporate governance matters, entity management, and maintenance of corporate records
• Support CLO with SEC compliance programs, including preparing and filing Section 16 reports (Forms 3, 4, and 5) for directors and officers, administering the insider trading policy, including trading window notifications and pre-clearance requests, maintaining filing calendars for periodic reports (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K) and proxy statements, coordinating signature pages and exhibits for SEC filings, and supporting Regulation FD compliance tracking and documentation (with appropriate supervision)
• Own day-to-day administration of the Contract Management System (CMS), including intake, tracking, organization, and reporting
• Support contract lifecycle processes—from intake through execution and storage
• Partner with Legal to improve and scale contract workflows, templates, and processes
• Respond to internal contract and legal operations questions with clarity and urgency
• Act as a flexible, proactive utility player across the legal function, jumping in where needed as the company scales
• Support Legal team projects related to audits, diligence requests, special projects and corporate initiatives
• Draft, review, and organize legal documents, correspondence, and internal communications
• Maintain clear, accurate, and well-organized records with exceptional attention to detail
• Coordinate with outside counsel to track engagement letters and invoices
• Help translate legal concepts into clear, business-friendly language for internal stakeholders

Corporate Paralegal

Manager

• Drive the technical direction and deliver autonomous decision making, behavior execution, and motion planning capabilities for airborne systems.
• Define the research, experiments, and development projects that support delivering mission autonomy capabilities.
• Identify gaps and define staffing needs to develop and deliver decision making and behavior capabilities.
• Ensure the decision making, behaviors, and motion planning technical plans align with short term R&D objectives, long term objectives, and the Merlin technology roadmap.
• Lead architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis, accounting for short term objectives and long term goals in decision making.
• Step in to a hands-on software development role as needed.
• Support simulation, integration, and flight test activities to validate real-world performance.
• Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.