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Hardware Integration Engineer (Electrical)

BostonOn-siteFull-time

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Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer leads avionics integration and testing for Merlin's aircraft autonomy system, develops electrical requirements, validates COTS/MOTS subsystems, and guides the electrical team across hardware design and integration.

About this role

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.

All of the sky, none of the limits!

Who you are:
Are you a creative and experienced electrical engineer who is passionate about developing systems on the forefront of technology? Do you believe you can build better aircraft systems using agile and robust development methods? Would you like to own a significant percentage of key systems for a new product? If so, you might be a good fit for the team in a Senior Avionics Electrical Engineer role here at Merlin Labs.

The Role:

  • Lead and perform avionics systems integration and testing of components of our aircraft autonomy system.
  • Write and maintain electrical systems requirements documents, electrical load analyses, and other related documents for prototyping and certification.
  • Write, maintain and execute test plans and design verification documents.
  • Specify, identify, integrate and verify Commercial/Modified-Off-the-Shelf (COTS/MOTS) electronic subsystems for aircraft installation.
  • Prepare and release electrical design and fabrication documentation for partners, vendors, and customers.
  • Work with suppliers, managing their performance to requirements, budget and schedule.
  • Provide guidance to other electrical engineers and technicians across the team working on electrical and electronic aspects of the system architecture and schematics including power, computer, electro-mechanical, interconnect systems, wireless communications, cable harnesses, packaging, cable routing, and user interfaces and controls.
  • This position may require up to 50% travel to both domestic and international locations to support hardware integration.

    • Qualifications:

  • BS in Electrical or Aerospace Engineering.
  • 10+ years of relevant systems level electrical systems and integration design experience for the aviation, aerospace, industries.
  • Experience integrating and testing avionics systems.
  • Experience with component specification, supplier interaction, and procurement processes.
  • Experience integrating and debugging systems containing COTS/MOTS modules, custom circuits, software, sensors, and human / machine / graphical user interfaces.
  • Working knowledge of integrating various components using standard interface protocols such as ARINC 429, RS-232, RS-422, and RS-485.
  • Familiarity with lab test equipment, including oscilloscopes, multimeters, current probes, data acquisition, and bus analyzers.
  • Experience with wire harness design and connector component selection and sourcing.
  • Outstanding organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

    • Bonus:

  • Specific experience with aircraft avionics, communications, and power distribution and management systems.
  • Working knowledge and understanding of the qualification and regulatory requirements for commercial and military aircraft. Specifically: RTCA D0-160, DO-178, DO-254; and MIL-STD-810.
  • Hands-on capability in a lab/field setting and able to function comfortably as an electromechanical technician to build and prove out designs. (SMT soldering, drilling, wiring, crimping, use of hand tools, design/build of cable assemblies.)
  • Hands-on experience with electro-mechanical systems such as motors and associated EMI/EMC design and qualification testing.
  • Aviation/Aerospace wire harness design experience.
  • Experience with design tools such as SolidWorks Electrical, Altium, or KiCAD.

    • Skills

    AltiumARINC 429Cable Harness DesignCOTS/MOTS IntegrationCurrent ProbesData AcquisitionDO-178DO-254Electrical Design DocumentationElectrical Load AnalysisElectrical Tests And Verification PlanningElectro-mechanical AssemblyElectromechanical IntegrationKiCadLab Test EquipmentMIL-STD-810MultimetersOscilloscopesPower Distribution And ManagementRS-232RS-422RS-485RTCA DO-160Schematic CaptureSOLIDWORKS ElectricalTest Plans And Verification DocumentsWire Harness Design

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