# Staff Systems Engineer - Architecture & Interfaces

Merlin (NASDAQ: MRLN) is a publicly traded aerospace and defense company building a non-human pilot to deliver full-stack autonomy for any aircraft from takeoff to touchdown. The Merlin Pilot autonomy system powers a growing range of aircraft and mission profiles and has been proven through hundreds of autonomous flights from Merlin's global flight test facilities, including Kerikeri, New Zealand; Smithfield, Rhode Island; and soon, Bedford, Massachusetts. Headquartered in Boston, Merlin is expanding its organization to accelerate the development and deployment of its autonomy platform, helping customers solve some of aviation's most pressing challenges, from pilot shortages to improving flight safety. Backed by some of the world's leading investors prior to its public listing, Merlin continues to advance the certification and commercialization of autonomous flight across commercial and defense aviation. About You: You are an experienced systems engineer with a strong background in system architecture, interface definition, requirements management, and system validation for civil-certified or DOD safety-critical avionics systems. You excel at capturing and communicating architectur

- **Id**: 3416318
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/merlin-labs-staff-systems-engineer-architecture-interfaces>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Boston, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T17:20:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T12:44:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4662
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Avionics & Flight Control, Drone AI

## Company

- **Id**: 46278
- **Name**: Merlin Labs
- **Domain**: merlinlabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/merlin-labs>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 24
- **Ghost share**: 0.208
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 44
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 165000
- **Max**: 220000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 220000

## Technologies

- **Cameo Systems Modeler** — Optional: no
- **DO-178C** — Optional: no
- **MBSE** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-28T19:33:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 220000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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