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Simulation Software Engineer

United States, Boston · Job Posted December 10, 2025
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Job Description

Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. This role involves building cutting-edge simulation technology in an autonomous aviation context, from software powering equipment for integration testing, to piloted flight simulators and training platforms providing synthetic sensor data.

Job Responsibility

  • Develop the simulation environment and also adapt it to power systems benches, desktop testing environments, piloted simulators, and cloud environments
  • Collaborate with teammates on improving graphics and terrain pipelines to harmonize our sensor and visual models
  • Work across the engineering organization to integrate models and hardware with our greater simulation suite
  • Collaborate with stakeholders in flight test, human factors, business development and engineering

Requirements

  • High level of competence in modern software engineering practices
  • Comfortable engineering software in C++ 11+
  • Familiar with either Python or JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Sets standards, conducts code reviews and ensures appropriate levels of testing and continuous integration

Nice to have

  • Aviation background (e.g. a pilot's license or in previous employment)
  • Robotics or simulation experience, especially in a robotics machine learning context
  • Performance engineering or distributed systems experience
  • Experience with React and front-end development
  • Simulink experience, especially integrating Simulink with other C++ applications
  • Experience configuring continuous integration
  • Graphics engine experience, especially Unreal via the C++ API or in managing Unreal as a render farm

What we offer

Health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match

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