LTV Autonomous Mission Training and Development Lead

LTV Autonomous Mission Training and Development Lead

Location:

Houston, Texas, United States

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Employment is contingent upon NASA selecting Intuitive Machines as the winner of the LTVS program, scheduled for announcement later in 2025.

The Team Moon Racer (TMR) Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) Autonomous Mission Training and Development (MTD) Lead will play a pivotal role in establishing and managing the day-to-day processes, workflows, products, and standard operating procedures (SOP) for the Autonomous MTD operations group as part of the larger LTV Operations team. They will build, train, and manage a high-performing Autonomous MTD team to support LTV operations.

The Autonomous MTD Lead will act as the primary technical liaison for discussions and collaboration with other LTV Operations group leads and LTV engineering personnel to ensure integration for successful mission execution. The role offers the opportunity to support real-time mission operations and is responsible for LTV training and mission products that ensure TMR readiness to support NASA and commercial autonomous LTV missions.

• Bachelor’s degree in an accredited STEM or 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, time lining, 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.
• In‑office presence required in Houston, Texas.

• 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 mitigating 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).

Intuitive Machines is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.