Staff Simulation Platform Engineer

Confidential • boston, davao oriental • Posted June 03, 2026

Position Overview

Staff Simulation Platform Engineer

Own the development of a scalable end-to-end simulation platform for autonomy validation across aircraft platforms

Location: Boston

Job Tags: Software

About The Role

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 lin...