Staff Engineer, Avionics Integration

The compensation range provided is a good-faith estimate based on a wide range of factors, inclusive of base salary only.

The actual offer will be determined by a variety of factors including the candidate's qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training.

Highly competitive equity grants are considered part of Merlin's total compensation package.

Additionally, Merlin offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

• Own the avionics integration architecture across multiple aircraft platforms — defining how flight computers, sensors, actuators, communications, power, and software subsystems come together as a certifiable, flyable system.
• Set integration strategy and technical standards used across the Aircraft Engineering team, including interface control documents, integration test methodology, and design review criteria.
• Lead systems-level integration and verification of COTS/MOTS avionics, custom hardware, and software components across lab and aircraft installations, spanning multiple concurrent platforms.
• Act as the senior technical authority in design reviews, flight test readiness reviews, and certification discussions, representing avionics integration to internal leadership, customers, and regulators.
• Identify systemic integration risks across programs and drive root-cause resolution, rather than working platform-by-platform issues in isolation.
• Mentor and provide technical direction to other integration engineers and installation technicians, raising the bar for integration rigor across the team, without formal people-management responsibility.
• Partner with Systems Engineering, Software, Flight Test, Certification, and Maintenance to ensure integration decisions hold up end-to-end, from architecture through flight test and into sustainment.
• Drive and review electrical/electronic, mechanical, and software interface definitions and installation and certification documentation package produced by the broader team.
• This position may require up to 50% travel, sometimes with short notice, to domestic and international locations to support aircraft and system integration.
• BS in Electrical, Aerospace, Systems, or related Engineering discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience integrating complex systems onto aircraft, with demonstrated ownership of integration architecture across more than one platform or program.
• Deep, hands-on experience integrating and debugging systems spanning COTS/MOTS avionics modules, custom hardware, embedded software, sensors, and human-machine interfaces — not limited to any single engineering discipline.