Autonomy Software Engineer

Confidential

Full-time IT & Technology
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Location
boston, davao oriental, Philippines
Posted
June 04, 2026

Job Description

Autonomy Software Engineer

Lead development of autonomous flight control algorithms for uncrewed aircraft

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.

You have hands‑on experience and a theoretical background in robotics and autonomy, preferably with experience in aerospace, and have developed technology for autonomous uncrewed vehicles (preferably airborne). You have generalist experience across the software stack, from embedded systems to high level algorithms, in addition to deep specialist knowledge of some of the core areas relevant to Merlin's future products. You want to focus more on design and guiding how we achieve our te...