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Intuitive Machines · 1 month ago

LTV Autonomous Mission Training and Development Lead

Houston, TX, US

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Intuitive Machines is an innovative and cutting-edge space company making cislunar space accessible to both public and private customers. The LTV Autonomous Mission Training and Development Lead will play a pivotal role in managing the Autonomous MTD operations group and ensuring successful mission execution.

AerospaceAnalyticsSpace TravelTransportation

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Establishing and managing the day-to-day processes, workflows, products, and standard operating procedures (SOP) for the Autonomous MTD operations group

Building, training, and managing a high-performing Autonomous MTD team to support LTV operations

Acting as the primary technical liaison for discussions and collaboration with other LTV Operations group leads and LTV engineering personnel

Ensuring integration for successful mission execution

Supporting real-time mission operations

Responsible for LTV training and mission products that ensure TMR readiness to support NASA and commercial autonomous LTV missions

Qualification

Real-time robotic spacecraftMission developmentProduct developmentAutonomous mission developmentProcessesWorkflowsSpacecraft integrationTraining personnelLeadership skillsCommunication skillsTime managementTeam-orientedAttention to detailFlexibilityCreativity

Required

Bachelor's degree in an accredited STEM or a related field and 8+ years of experience, or M.S. and 5+ years, in real-time robotic spacecraft with focus in: mission development, product development, training, timelining, or payload/science planning, integration and planning

Exceptional leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills

Experience with processes, workflows, product development, and standard operating procedures (SOP)

Excellent organization and time management skills and attention to detail

Proven ability to work across multiple teams and balance competing priorities

Self-motivated, focused, and driven to meet critical deadlines

Ability to multitask and prioritize tasks effectively

Team-oriented, with excellent verbal and written communication skills

This role requires in-office presence in Houston, Texas

Preferred

Experience with Class A spaceflight missions, human spaceflight, or human-rated vehicle development

Experience with autonomous spaceflight missions, spaceflight robotics, or autonomous mission development

Experience establishing or managing day-to-day processes, workflows, products, and standard operating procedures (SOP)

Experience with spaceflight operations

Experience developing mission operations procedure development

Experience developing mission operation timeline development

Experience managing teams

Experience training personnel for spaceflight operations

Experience with communicating and mitigation development for risks, constraints, limits, and contingency response

Flexibility and creativity to seek, create, and utilize operations and systems engineering practices that suit a lean and agile lunar operations company without sacrificing technical excellence and integrity

Spacecraft integration and testing

Experience translating design information and technical documentation into functional operations protocols, procedures, and mission sequences/timelines

Experience with documentation and collaboration tools such as Confluence, Jira, MS Office (MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Excel)