Staff Simulation Platform 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 Staff Simulation Platform Engineer to design and build the next-generation simulation infrastructure that supports aircraft modeling, autonomy development, and hardware-in-the-loop validation across multiple aircraft platforms.

This is a hands-on senior technical role focused on building scalable virtual environments, stabilizing integration infrastructure, and enabling scenario-based autonomy validation without linear growth in engineering effort per platform.

This position reports to the Virtual Test Environments Lead and will play a central role in evolving our simulation ecosystem into a robust, scalable internal platform.

Define and implement structured topology and configuration definitions across aircraft platforms

Improve stability of routing layers, hardware/software interfaces, and runtime integration components

Introduce versioning and compatibility discipline across simulation artifacts

Build validation tooling to prevent integration breakage from reaching lab benches

Expand scenario-based simulation capabilities supporting autonomy development

Enable structured Monte Carlo and multi-scenario validation workflows

Develop infrastructure to simulate sensor inputs and autonomy behaviors in realistic operational contexts

Improve determinism and traceability of simulation runs

Implement CI/CD workflows for simulation artifacts

Improve reproducibility of simulation environments

Implement schema-driven validation mechanisms for interfaces

Build foundational platform components hands-on during early phases

Mentor and elevate engineers working on simulation tools and routing infrastructure

Establish extensibility and architectural standards within the simulation stack

Influence cross-functional stakeholders (Autonomy, Compute Platform, Systems, Lab Integration)

This is a senior technical contributor role with significant architectural impact but no direct people management responsibility.

7+ years of experience building or scaling complex simulation or autonomy validation environments

Experience contributing to or architecting large-scale simulation frameworks (e.g., AFSIM, Unreal/Unity-based simulation environments, CARLA, custom autonomy simulation platforms, or equivalent)

Strong software architecture experience in multi-component, distributed systems

Experience defining interface contracts, configuration schemas, or API boundaries in complex systems

Experience integrating simulation environments with real-time or hardware-in-the-loop systems

Hands-on proficiency in Python and/or C++

Demonstrated ability to modernize or scale legacy engineering toolchains

Experience developing simulation or virtual validation environments for autonomy systems (automotive, aerospace, robotics)

Experience designing scenario-based validation systems

Familiarity with SIL/HIL integration

Experience implementing CI/CD in engineering-heavy environments

Background in safety-critical systems