Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Merlin Labs

Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer designing and operating simulation execution substrate for aviation startup. Focused on high-performance compute infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and reliability.

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

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

LinuxPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and manage high-performance compute infrastructure (e.g., Proxmox or equivalent hypervisor environments)
Define VM topology standards for virtual test environments
Implement reproducible image and deployment strategies
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for simulation artifacts
Ensure deterministic and traceable builds for runtime models and routing software
Automate deployment into SIL and HIL environments
Implement artifact versioning and compatibility tracking
Maintain structured configuration management across aircraft variants
Partner with Simulation Platform engineers to enforce schema and interface validation
Implement logging, monitoring, and system health visibility for simulation environments
Improve toolchain reliability and reduce infrastructure-related breakage

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering
Experience designing virtualization or container-based execution environments
Strong proficiency in Linux systems, Python, and/or C++
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines in engineering-heavy environments
Experience working with distributed or multi-component systems
Experience supporting simulation or autonomy validation environments (preferred)
Familiarity with HIL/SIL environments (preferred)
Experience in safety-critical or regulated industries (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
health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match

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Hard Skills & Tools

infrastructure engineeringDevOpsplatform engineeringvirtualizationcontainer-based execution environmentsLinux systemsPythonC++CI/CD pipelinesconfiguration management