Director, Air Vehicle Integration

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: You are a systems engineer who has spent your career making complex, interdisciplinary programs hold together under pressure. You understand that systems integration is not a coordination function — it is an engineering function. You know how to own the interfaces between teams, find the failure modes nobody else is looking for, and drive resolution when disciplines disagree. You have done this on programs where the margin for error was small and the schedule was unforgiving, and you have the instincts that come from being accountable for outcomes rather than just process.   You are as comfortable in a design review as you are in a flight test debrief. You can read a controls requirements document, challenge a software architecture, and push back on an avionics interface definition — not because you are trying to own everything, but because integration problems surface when no single engineer is looking across all of it. You are the person who is always looking across all of it.You operate well in ambiguity.   You can build and lead a team that defines structures and architectures that do not exist yet: the integration plans, the interface control documents, the test strategies that connect subsystem verification to system-level confidence. You acquire and lead the talent that does not wait to be asked. You foster the talent that identifies what is missing and closes the gap.