Merlin Labs

Mission Autonomy – Planning and Behaviors Manager

Merlin Labs

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Boston • Massachusetts • United States

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Job Level

Junior

Tech Stack

Python

About the role

  • 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.

Requirements

  • Degree in Computer Science, Aerospace Engineering, Robotics Engineering, or a related subject.
  • Years of professional experience developing software for airborne autonomous systems.
  • Subject matter expert in one or more of the following:
  • Mission management frameworks such as behavior trees, hierarchical task networks, state machines, petri nets.
  • Single- and multi-vehicle autonomy, resource allocation, and decision making algorithms.
  • Airborne contingency and emergency management.
  • Machine learning for complex decision making and behavior generation.
  • Years of experience providing tech leadership to a team of at least 4 engineers at different levels.
  • Proficiency in modern software development workflows and practices, including version control, pipelines, and unit testing, and peer review.
  • Experience with overall product development cycle, including design, testing, and troubleshooting at the system level as well as at the software component level.
  • Proficiency writing both Python and C++.
  • Familiarity with simulation software, especially aircraft simulation.
  • Experience with proposal writing and technical roadmap development.
Benefits
  • catered lunches featuring a rotating menu of delicious options
  • an assortment of snacks
  • a selection of beverages, including coffee, tea, and other drinks
  • health, dental, life insurance
  • unlimited vacation
  • 401k with match
  • professional development
  • work/life integration
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationproblem solving