Test Data Engineer at Merlin Labs
Boston, MA
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Jul 13, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on owning the strategy, governance, and day-to-day management of engineering test data platforms at an aerospace autonomy company. The work spans vendor relationship management, telemetry and instrumentation data workflows, enterprise data standards, and analytics enablement across flight test, simulation, and laboratory programs. Best suited to someone with aerospace or defense experience who can bridge test operations, data engineering, and executive-level strategy.
Senior level · 5+ years · Boston, MA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (7)
This role is a hybrid of engineering systems analysis, data platform strategy, and vendor management in an aerospace context — it does not map cleanly to a single SOC code. 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is used as the best fit for a technical platform/data strategy owner; 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is a strong runner-up given the enterprise systems integration and requirements-gathering emphasis.
Several 'Technical Knowledge' items (data acquisition systems, telemetry systems, instrumentation systems, engineering data management, configuration management, cloud-based engineering systems, data analytics platforms) are listed under a requirements-style section without explicit 'required' language — they read as expected domain knowledge gates for this aerospace role and are marked required accordingly.
Epsilon3, CloudTS, AI/ML, and digital engineering frameworks appear under the 'Nice to Haves' section and are marked preferred.
The posting states 'Advanced degree preferred' — the hard minimum is a Bachelor's degree, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is explicitly on-site at Merlin HQ in Boston, MA; remote is false.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): engineering data management, configuration management, cloud-based engineering systems, enterprise software implementation.
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