Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer

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About Merlin: Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest…

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About Merlin:

Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges.

We are seeking a Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate the compute and virtualization backbone that supports HIL, AIR, and SIL environments.

This role owns the implementation and operational stability of the simulation execution substrate including hypervisors, virtual machines, containerization, CI pipelines, and artifact management.

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

7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering