• Design, build, and integrate onboard and off-board airborne perception capabilities to enable autonomous flight and decision making. • Work closely with the R&D software engineering manager to understand team objectives, short term milestones, long term milestones, and technology roadmap. • Support architecture design and perform architecture and technology trade-off analysis for perception subsystems. • Drive sensor, integration, and algorithm approaches for perception subsystems. • Establish and maintain infrastructure and processes to support development, testing, and evaluation of traditional and machine learning based algorithms. • Collaborate closely with the rest of the R&D software team throughout the research, design, implement, and test cycle. • Write, test, document and review code according to Merlin’s development standards as needed. • Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.