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Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer

BostonHybridFull-time

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Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer designs and operates the compute and virtualization backbone for HIL, AIR, and SIL simulation environments, including hypervisors, VMs, containers, CI pipelines, and artifact management.

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.

About you:

We are seeking a Senior Platform Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate the compute and virtualization backbone that supports HIL, AIR, and SIL environments.

This role owns the implementation and operational stability of the simulation execution substrate including hypervisors, virtual machines, containerization, CI pipelines, and artifact management.

Responsibilities:

1. Simulation Compute Architecture

  • Design and manage high-performance compute infrastructure (e.g., Proxmox or equivalent hypervisor environments)

  • Define VM topology standards for virtual test environments

  • Implement reproducible image and deployment strategies

    • 2. CI/CD & Automation

  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for simulation artifacts

  • Ensure deterministic and traceable builds for runtime models and routing software

  • Automate deployment into SIL and HIL environments

    • 3. Configuration & Version Discipline

  • Implement artifact versioning and compatibility tracking

  • Maintain structured configuration management across aircraft variants

  • Partner with Simulation Platform engineers to enforce schema and interface validation

    • 4. Reliability & Observability

  • Implement logging, monitoring, and system health visibility for simulation environments

  • Improve toolchain reliability and reduce infrastructure-related breakage

    • Required Qualifications:

  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering

  • Experience designing virtualization or container-based execution environments

  • Strong proficiency in Linux systems, Python, and/or C++

  • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines in engineering-heavy environments

  • Experience working with distributed or multi-component systems

    • Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience supporting simulation or autonomy validation environments

  • Familiarity with HIL/SIL environments

  • Experience in safety-critical or regulated industries

    • Skills

    AASArtifact ManagementAutomationBuild PipelinesC++CI/CDCI PipelinesConfiguration ManagementContainerizationDeterministic BuildsHILLinuxLoggingMonitoringOrchestrationProxmoxPythonReproducible DeploymentSchema ValidationSILSLASREVirtualizationVMware

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