Staff Engineer, World Model Development

Merlin Labs, Remote or Boston or San Francisco Bay Area

What you will do

Design, train and evaluate world models that predict the evolution of aircraft state, environment and other traffic under candidate action sequences.
Build the rollout and imagination machinery that lets a planner evaluate candidate plans against predicted outcomes before committing to one.
Own uncertainty: calibrated predictive uncertainty and out-of-distribution signals are required outputs of your models, consumed directly by the safety monitoring layer.
Characterize model validity boundaries rigorously — the flight regimes, weather, traffic densities and configurations where predictions can be trusted, and where they degrade.

Merlin Labs, Remote or Boston or San Francisco Bay Area

$185K–$325K

a year

This base pay is above the median for staff software engineering jobs that are remote in the US.

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Design, train and evaluate world models that predict the evolution of aircraft state, environment and other traffic under candidate action sequences.
Build the rollout and imagination machinery that lets a planner evaluate candidate plans against predicted outcomes before committing to one.
Own uncertainty: calibrated predictive uncertainty and out-of-distribution signals are required outputs of your models, consumed directly by the safety monitoring layer.
Characterize model validity boundaries rigorously — the flight regimes, weather, traffic densities and configurations where predictions can be trusted, and where they degrade.