Merlin Labs is an aviation consulting firm offering a range of advanced automation systems designed to scale autonomy in aviation. By leveraging advanced technology, Merlin Labs st
Senior Software Engineer – Flight Autonomy
Location
United States
Posted
173 days ago
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0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Software Engineer – Flight Autonomy
Merlin Labs
• Design and develop flight-critical software using Simulink, Stateflow, and related MathWorks tools for model-based design. • Define software architecture, modeling standards, and development workflows aligned with DO-178C and DO-331. • Create, maintain and review software requirements, models and auto-generated code. • Ensure robustness and traceability through requirements-based design, verification, and certification artifact production. • Collaborate with engineers from cross functional groups such as systems, safety, hardware, flight controls and test to ensure product and program level needs are met. • Support integration into CI pipelines, including model checks, code generation, static analysis, and automated verification. • Contribute to planning and execution of SOI audits and certification reviews. • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for software requirements, architecture and design decisions • Support hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), processor-in-the-loop (PIL), and flight testing activities.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience developing embedded or safety-critical software.
- Extensive experience with Simulink, Stateflow and Embedded Coder for safety critical software development.
- Experience with Simulink Check, Simulink Code Inspector, Simulink Test and Polyspace Bug Finder
- Strong experience with requirements management, including authoring high-quality software requirements, maintaining traceability, and using tools such as DOORS, Jama, or Polarion.
- Working knowledge of DO-178C, including hands-on experience with DO-331.
- Experience with CI/CD environments and automated model/code quality checks.
- Experience developing embedded flight software using C/C++ and integrating auto-generated code with manual code
- Experience performing HIL testing, automated test execution, troubleshooting integration issues and analysis of flight test data.
- Experience with MATLAB scripting, tool automation, and test automation
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