System Integration Manager

Merlin Labs

Systems Integration & Labs Manager at Merlin Labs leading the design and operation of simulation environments. Overseeing integration efforts for flight controls development in a venture-backed aerospace startup

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design, build, and lifecycle management of HIL, AIR, and SIL environments
Establish configuration control standards for hardware, networking, and physical integration
Ensure lab infrastructure scales cleanly across multiple aircraft platforms
Implement structured integration processes
Define and enforce bench configuration versioning and compatibility practices
Partner with the Simulation Platform pillar to ensure clean deployment of platform-defined topologies
Manage and grow a team of integration engineers
Set technical standards for hardware integration, signal integrity, and deployment
Provide escalation support during integration and validation events
Collaborate with Flight Dynamics and Simulation Platform teams
Support flight test preparation and remote integration events
Interface with Systems, Autonomy, and Compute Platform teams to align integration timelines

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in systems integration, HIL/SIL environments, or complex hardware/software integration
Experience leading integration efforts across evolving system configurations
Strong understanding of real-time I/O, embedded interfaces, and hardware-in-the-loop validation
Experience managing technical teams in a multidisciplinary engineering environment
Demonstrated ability to bring structure and discipline to evolving integration workflows
Experience with aerospace or autonomy systems (preferred)
Experience deploying virtualized compute infrastructure in lab environments (preferred)
Familiarity with configuration management and compatibility versioning strategies (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks

catered lunches featuring a rotating menu of delicious options
an assortment of snacks to keep you fueled throughout the day
a selection of beverages, including coffee, tea, and other drinks, to keep you refreshed
health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match

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Hard Skills & Tools

HILSILhardware integrationsignal integrityreal-time I/Oembedded interfaceshardware-in-the-loop validationconfiguration managementcompatibility versioningvirtualized compute infrastructure

Soft Skills

leadershipteam managementcollaborationproblem-solvingdisciplinestructurecommunicationescalation supportintegration workflow managementtechnical standards setting